Erin Molloy is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. She is motivated by the computational advances required to make sense of (genomic) data, and her work combines discrete optimization, graph algorithms, statistics, and high performance computing for applications in evolution, genomics, and neuroscience. Recently, she was a resident at the Institute for Pure and Applied Math's long program, Science at Extreme Scales---Where Big Data Meets Large Scale Computing. She has co-authored 12 referred papers in computational phylogenetics and 6 referred papers in neuroimaging. Her dissertation research, advised by Tandy Warnow and Bill Gropp, has been supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and two allocations on the Blue Waters supercomputer. More information can be found on her website (http://erinkmolloy.web.