Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Colorado (2012)
B.A. in Computer Science, Middlebury College (2001)

Professional Background

Dan Knights joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in 2012 as an assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor in 2018, and was named the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Computational Biology in the College of Biological Sciences in 2022. Additionally, Knights was the CEO and co-founder of CoreBiome, Inc. from 2017-2020. Prior to coming to the University, he completed post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

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Teaching Subjects

• Computational Biology
• Data Mining

Honors and Awards

2023: Charles E. Bowers Faculty Teaching Award
2015: McKnight Land-Grant Professorship

Selected Grants
Targeting the gut microbiome to prevent the increasing incidence of obesity in immigrant populations
Knights, D., Kashyap, P.; Minnesota Partnership Grant Program; 4/1/19 - 6/30/22

Early life antibiotics, gut microbiome development, and risk of childhood obesity
Knights, D., Gerber, J.; The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; 2/15/16 → 1/31/22

Developing novel microbiota-targeted therapies for Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Knights, D., Kashyap, P.; Minnesota Partnership Grant Program; 8/1/14 - 8/31/17