Professor Taylor earned his BS in computer science from the University of Vermont in 2000, and his PhD in computer science in 2006 from Penn State University, where he was involved in several vertebrate genome projects and the ENCODE project. Before arriving at Johns Hopkins, he was an associate professor in the departments of biology and mathematics and computer science at Emory University from 2008 until 2013. At Hopkins, he also held an appointment in the Whiting School’s Department of Computer Science.