Biography
Trevor Cickovski received his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 2008. He holds Graduate Faculty status and specializes in teaching hardware and Unix coursework, is IRB-certified (Biomedical and Social/Behavioral) and a member of the Bioinformatics Research Group (BioRG) at FIU.
He also is a member of the ACM, IEEE, and the National Learning Assistant Alliance (LAA). Before coming to FIU Trevor was Discipline Coordinator of Computer Science at Eckerd College. He has received three teaching excellence awards, from FIU KF-SCIS (2017) and CEC (2019), and as as graduate instructor at Notre Dame (2006).
Trevor was named a Center for the Advancement of Teaching (CAT) fellow in 2019, participating in a University-wide effort to improve teaching evaluation. He has received funding from NIJ (epigenetics), NSF (machine learning, COVID-19 molecular mimicry, and interdisciplinary computing majors), and NVIDIA (teaching GPU computing).
Trevor is passionate about health and explores roles played the microbiome in maintaining homeostasis, including connections with ADHD, A1AD, COPD, smoking, and red tides (involving multi-omics, large-scale processing, and the GPU). He has several peer-reviewed publications including JMM, LNBI, Bioinformatics, BMC, ICCABS, IWBBIO, and ACM TCBB.
Trevor is lead developer of PluMA, facilitating natural progress in bioinformatics by providing a plug-and-play interface where researchers can build new ideas in a language of choice, test alongside other plugins in a complete bioinformatics pipeline, and commit their contribution to a centralized pool (current size: more than 1,500).
Awards & Honors
- Top Scholar, Florida International University, 2024
- Promotion to Associate Teaching Professor, Florida International University, 2021
- CEC Faculty Teaching Award, Florida International University, 2019
- KFSCIS Teaching Excellence Award, Florida International University, 2017
- Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor, Eckerd College, 2014
- OpenMM Visiting Scholars Program, Stanford University, 2012
- Kaneb Award for Excellence in Teaching, Notre Dame, 2006
- Inducted into Upsilon Pi Epsilon, 2004
- Inducted into Tau Beta Pi, 2001
Education
Education
- Ph.D., Computer and Information Science, University of Notre Dame, 2008
- MS, Computer and Information Science, University of Notre Dame, 2005