Dr. Parker received the A.B. in Mathematics cum laude from Princeton in 1974. He completed his M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1976 and 1978, respectively. Following a period of postdoctoral research at the Universite de Grenoble in France he joined the Faculty of the UCLA Computer Science Department in 1979. His current interests center around data mining in general, and biological databases in particular.