Dr. Payne Samuel is a bioinformatics professor at BYU, with a focus on cancer, proteomics, and genomics. He currently leads an NIH project for algorithms in single-cell proteomics, with past funding from all major US governmental agencies (NIH, NSF, DOE, and DOJ). Before joining BYU, he was a Senior Research Scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and an Assistant Professor of Informatics at the J. Craig Venter Institute. He received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young University in 2002 and his Ph.D. degree in Bioinformatics from UC San Diego in 2008, working with Dr. Vineet Bafna.