I'm an Assistant Professor in the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. My training is in computer science and computational biology. Over the past 25 years, my interests have centered on problems in the nexus of computer science and biology. I want to understand cells and tissues through computation and as complex systems that perform computation. This appears to me to be a growing edge at which I can make a contribution.