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Thomas Schneider†
– Molecular Information Theory
Tsvi Tlusty 
– Theory of Life
Ilya Nemenman
– Theoretical Biophysics
John Carlos Baez†* 
— mathematical physicist
Hector Zenil 
— a “computer natural scientist” or “information theoretic biologist”
Frank Emmert-Streib
– Computational Medicine and Statistical Learning
Sara Imari Walker
– Theoretical physicist, Astrobiology & Origin of Life
Ivan B. Djordjevic 
-Optical communications/networks, error control coding, coded modulation, turbo equalization, OFDM applications, quantum information processing, quantum error correction, QKD, and quantum biology.
Terry Sejnowski
– Computational Neurobiology
Rodrick Wallace
John Avery
Ian F. Akyildiz
– Broadband Wireless Networking
Ulf Andersson Ørom
– Long non-coding RNA
IBM Research – Physics of Information Processing in Living Systems
John Hawks 
– Anthropology
Chris Lee*
– Bioinformatics and genomics; applies information theory to experiment design and evolutionary biology
Biological Physics Group at Weizmann
Deceased Researchers
Werner R. Loewenstein (1926-2014)
Claude Shannon (1916-2001)
Norbert Weiner (1894-1964)
† Indicates attendee of BIRS: Biological and Bio-inspired Information Theory Workshop
- Indicates attendee of NIMBioS Workshop on Information Theory and Entropy in Biological Systems
Previous students/researchers
These are now working in other areas:
Ethan Buchman
– Previously in Fudge Lab
Journalists
Some journalists who do an excellent job of covering this area of research:
Philip Ball Outlets for his work: Books on Amazon, Nature.com, Scientific American, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Nautilus, Quanta Magazine, Prospect Magazine, Aeon, New Humanist, Chemistry World
To File
Alexander D. Wissner-Gross
Cameron Freer
Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns
Eric Smith – Santa Fe Institute
David Wolpert – Santa Fe Institute
Artemy Kolchinsky – Santa Fe Institute
Suzanne Still
Gavin E. Crooks
David Sivak
Ilya Prigogine
Nick Lane
Jordan M. Horowitz student in Jeremy England lab
Michael Lässig, a statistical physicist and quantitative biologist at the University of Cologne in Germany
Rahul Sarpeshkar, a professor of engineering, physics and microbiology at Dartmouth College