Pete Lawson

Pete received his B.S. in Biology and Computer Science from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His undergraduate research focused on ensembling machine learning approaches for the enhancement of phenotype prediction in maize. As an NSF IGERT Ph.D. fellow in Bioinnovation, he joined the Translational Biophotonics Laboratory in 2015 to continue work at the intersection of biology and computer science.  His current research involves applying topological data analysis to gain insights into topological differences in cancer morphology at the histological level and their importance in diagnosis and prognosis.