Michael Baym is a microbiologist and applied mathematician studying bacterial evolution and computational genomics. His lab at Harvard Medical School, where he is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Microbiology, uses synthetic and computational techniques to study the microbial evolution with a focus on the horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance. His contributions include the Mega-plate device for visualizing the evolution of antibiotic resistance, algorithms for extremely large microbial genomic datasets, and discoveries from phage biology to evolutionary theory. Michael was a PhD student with Bonnie Berger in Mathematics at MIT, and a postdoctoral fellow with Roy Kishony in Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. He has won several awards for his work including a Packard Fellowship, a Pew Biomedical Scholarship, a Sloan Research Fellowship, as well a Hertz Graduate Fellowship. Additionally, he holds over five dozen issued patents.