Michael Cummings

Michael Cummings is a professor of biology with an appointment in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. He is director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB).

Cummings’ research involves bioinformatics and computational biology with a particular focus on data analysis that spans a broad range of biomedical problems. He takes a broadly data science approach to research with objectives including description, hypothesis generation, hypothesis testing, prediction, and uses machine learning, statistical and other methods.