# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-waterman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:34:58.344Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-waterman"
name: "Michael Waterman"
slug: "michael-waterman"
description: "Michael Spencer Waterman is a Professor of Biology, Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC), where he holds an Endowed Associates Chair in Biological Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science. He previously held positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Idaho State University."
tagline: "American scientist and professor at the University of Southern California"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Waterman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1942-06-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.076602666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "迈克尔·沃特曼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مایکل واترمن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Waterman"
    title: "Michael S. Waterman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Waterman"
    title: "Michael Waterman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مایکل واترمن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Waterman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Waterman"
    title: "Michael Waterman"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1694475"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump