Tao Jiang (Chinese: 姜涛) is a Chinese-Canadian computer scientist and bioinformatician.
From 1989 to 2001, he was on faculty in the Department of Software at McMaster University, Hamilton, Onatario, Canada.
[3] In particular, his joint research with Ming Li and Paul Vitanyi on the well-known Heilbronn triangle problem using the incompressibility method was featured in New Scientist.
[4] His work on the inference and quantification of gene isoforms from RNA-Seq data was reported in Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News.
[5] He was elected to the 2024 class of ISCB Fellows, "for pioneering research in computational biology and bioinformatics",[6] the 2007 class of ACM Fellows, "for contributions to computational biology and computational complexity",[7] and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2006.