Jérôme Waldispühl is an associate professor of Computer Science at McGill University. He conducts research in bioinformatics and pioneered the use of video games to engage the public in genomic research with Phylo (2010), Colony B (2016), Borderlands Science (2020) and Project Discovery Phase 3 (2020). He presented these contributions at the White House OSTP (2013), Québec Parliament (2016) and French Academy of Science (2018).

Jérôme holds a PhD from École Polytechnique (France), and was an instructor in Applied Mathematics at MIT (2006-2009). He is a recipient of the Tomlinson Scientist Award and the Fessenden Professorship in Science Innovation.