Robert
Robbins currently serves as Vice President for Information Technology
at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
From 1993-1995, he was Program Director for Bioinformation Infrastructure
in the Office of Health and Environmental Research of the U.S.
Department of Energy, while on leave from his faculty positions
in Computer Science and in Medical Information at Johns Hopkins
University.
During 1991-1993,
Robbins was on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University, serving
as Director of the Applied Research Laboratory, William H. Welch
Medical Library, Director of Informatics of the Genome Data Base,
Associate Professor of Medical Informatics, and Adjunct Associate
Professor of Computer Science.
Prior to joining the Hopkins faculty in 1991, he was Program Director
for Database Activities in the Biological, Behavioral, and Social
Sciences at the National Science Foundation.
Robbins currently
serves on the Board of Trustees for BIOSIS, publisher of Biological
Abstracts and The Zoological Record, as well as on the advisory
boards for several biological databases. He was a member of the
National Academy Committee on the Formation of a National Biological
Survey. He received his Ph.D. in zoology from Michigan State University
in 1977. He also holds an A.B. in Chinese and Japanese history
from Stanford University. His current research interests include
computer applications in biology, computational genomics, database
theory and design, and the management of biological knowledge.
