Praveen Sethupathy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he directs a research laboratory focused on the genetics/genomics of complex human diseases. Sethupathy received his B.A. in Computer Science from Cornell University, his Ph.D. in Genomics and Computational Biology from the University of Pennsylvania, and he continued his training as a post-doctoral fellow with Dr. Francis S. Collins at the National Institutes of Health. Sethupathy has contributed to nearly three dozen peer-reviewed publications and is a regular conference lecturer. He was recently selected by Genome Technology as one of the nation’s top 25 rising young investigators in genomics. Sethupathy lives with his wife and three children in idyllic Hillsborough, North Carolina.