William Stafford Noble is a Professor in the Department of Genome Sciences and in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He received the Ph.D. in computer science and cognitive science from University of California, San Diego in 1998. Dr. Noble's research applies statistical and machine learning methods to the analysis of complex biological data sets. He is the author of more than 300 peer reviewed publications and has advised 34 postdoctoral fellows and 24 PhD students. William is the recipient of the International Society for Computational Biology Innovator award, is on the Clarivate Analytics list of "Highly cited researchers," and is a Fellow and former member of the Board of Directors of the ISCB.