Pavel Arkadevich Pevzner (Russian: Павел Аркадьевич Певзнер) is the Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science and director of the NIH Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry at University of California, San Diego.

[6] Pevzner received his Ph.D. in mathematics and physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology while working for the Russian Research Institute for Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms (NII Genetika).

In 1990, he joined Michael Waterman's laboratory in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Southern California for two years as a postdoctoral research associate.

Pevzner is interested in new approaches to teaching computational molecular biology at both undergraduate and graduate level,[7][8] serving as a founding instructor for the bioinformatics specialization on Coursera[9] and having written several books on bioinformatics and computational biology.

In 1995, Pevzner moved back to the University of Southern California as a professor of mathematics, computer science, and molecular biology.