Dr. Susan Murphy

Professor

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Biography

Susan Murphy is the Mallinckrodt Professor at the Harvard John Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where she specializes in statistics and computer science. Her primary teaching area is computer science, and she also serves as an associate faculty member at the Kempner Institute. In her research, she focuses on statistical reinforcement learning and its applications across various domains. With a strong background in applied mathematics and artificial intelligence, she has contributed significantly to the fields of computational data science and statistical learning. Her lab, the Statistical Reinforcement Learning Lab, is dedicated to innovating methodologies that advance the understanding and application of these fields.

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Requirements for Harvard John Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Doctorate Program
Requirements
TOEFL
Total
Required:100
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Introductory courses in chemistry, biology, physics, and mathematics Biochemistry Organic chemistry Physical chemistry Differential and integral calculus
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Specialization Notes

The program covers Molecular Mechanism & Structural Biology, Systems, Quantitative & Computational Biology, Neurobiology & Behavior, and Development, Genetics & Evolution. GRE not accepted.