Laxmi Parida is an IBM Master Inventor and group leader in computational genomics[2] at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in New York.

[1][3][4][5] Parida was educated at New York University (NYU) where she was awarded a PhD in 1998 for research on algorithms for computational genomics supervised by Bud Mishra.

[6] Parida's research interests are in computational genomics, population genomics, bioinformatics, cancer genomics, topological data analysis[1][7][8] and their applications to coronavirus disease 2019.

[9][10] Parida was awarded Fellowship of the ISCB in 2020 for outstanding contributions to computational biology and bioinformatics.

[12][13] She is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).