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Academic Appointments
  Harvard Medical School
 Research Fellow in Systems Biology, Kishony Lab
2009-Present
 
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 Research Affiliate in Mathematics
2009-2010
 Visiting Scholar in Mathematics
2009-2010
 

Education

  Ph.D. in Mathematics
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
September 2009
 Advisor: Bonnie Berger
                         
A.M. in Mathematics
 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
2003
   
   
B.S. in Mathematics, with Highest Distinction
 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
 2002
   
 Senior Thesis in Mathematics: “Integer Solutions to Cubic Thue Equations
of Bounded Discriminant,” awarded Greenwood-Trijinsky Prize.
 Senior Thesis in Chemical Biology: “Amino Acid Correlations Between
Similarly Folding Proteins,” awarded Colgate-Palmolive Fellowship.
 

Awards

  NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
2009-present
 
Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship
2004-2009
  Biosciences Division
 
NDSEG Graduate Fellowship
2004-2007
  Biosciences Division
 
NSF VIGRE Graduate Fellowship
2002-2003
 Awarded to top 2 incoming graduate students in mathematics at UIUC
 
Greenwood-Trijinsky Prize
2001, 2002
  For best undergraduate research in mathematics at UIUC
 
Colgate-Palmolive Undergraduate Research Fellowship
2001-2002
  UIUC-wide award for outstanding undergraduate research in the biological sciences
 
Undergraduate Mathematics Major Award
2002
  For the “most outstanding undergraduate student” in UIUC math
 
UIUC Chancellor's Scholar
2004-2007
  Campus-wide honors program, awarded to fewer than 2% of students.
 
 

Publications




 
  •  N. Daniels, A. Gallant, J. Peng, L. Cowen, M. Baym, and Bonnie Berger, Compressive genomics for protein databases, to appear in Bioinformatics (2013).

  •  M. Baym and D.B. West, Bounds on the k-dimension of products of special posets, Order (print issue forthcoming), DOI: 10.1007/s11083-012-9276-y (2012)

  •  P.R. Loh*, M. Baym*, B. Berger, Compressive genomics, Nature Biotechnology 30(7), 627-630. (2012)

  •  D. Park, R. Singh, M. Baym, C.S. Liao, B. Berger, IsoBase: a database of functionally related proteins across PPI networks, Nucleic Acids Research 39(1), D295-300. (2011)

  •  D.S. Lun, G. Rockwell, N.J. Guido, M. Baym, J.A. Kelner, J.E. Galagan, and G.M. Church, Large-scale identification of genetic design strategies using local search, Nature EMBO Molecular Systems Biology 5:296.(2009)

  •  C.S. Liao, K. Lu, M. Baym, R. Singh, and B. Berger, IsoRankN: spectral methods for global alignment of multiple protein networks, Bioinformatics 25(12):i253-8. (2009)

  •   M. Baym*, C. Bakal*, N. Perrimon and B. Berger, High-resolution modeling of cellular signaling networks, in Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2008), LNBI 4955: 257-271, 2008.

  •  M. Baym and A.W. Hübler, Conserved quantities and adaptation to the edge of chaos, Phys. Rev. E. 73, 056210 (2006)

    • Work and Teaching Experience

      Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Teaching Assistant for:
    18.310: Principles of [Discrete] Applied Mathematics
    18.395: Group Theory with Applications to Physics     		 

    Fall 2003
    Spring 2004
     
    Santa Fe Institute
    Visiting Researcher in Chaos Theory and Theoretical Biology,
    Advisors: Alfred Hübler and Stuart Kauffman     		Summer 2003
     
    UIUC Department of Chemistry
    Research Assistant in Computational Chemical Biology,
    Advisor: Zaida Luthey-Schulten     		Summers
    2001, 2002
     
    UIUC Department of Mathmatics
    Computing Consultant     		2001
     
    Sigma Digital Designs
    Co-founder and web content designer     		1996-1998
     

    Campus Service

      MIT Applied Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar (SPAMS)
    Organizer     		2007-2008
     
    UIUC Mathematics Department
    Undergraduate Advisory Committee     		2000-2001
     
    UIUC Illini Tae Kwon Do Club
    Instructor     		1999-2003
     
    UIUC Undergraduate Mathematics Society
    Founder, President     		2001-2002