Ryan Golhar received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Rutgers University, after which he worked for a software development company for several years as a senior developer. He received several industry awards including two Reader's Choice Awards from Visual Basic Programmer's Journal and one Reader's Choice award from Intelligent Enterprise for GUI component development.

He later moved on to Compaq Computer Corporation as a technical consultant in New York City, where he worked closely with search engine technology. He left that post to pursue his Master's degree in Computer Science.

While pursuing his M.S., he discovered the field of Bioinformatics and finished his Master's (graduating cum laude) in Biomedical Informatics at The School of Health Related Professions (SHRP) at UMDNJ; His Master's work was focused on automated sequence analysis, genome assembly and annotation by computational methods.

In January 2002, he accepted a position with the Informatics Institute of UMDNJ. Responsibilities here include teaching courses in the GSBS-based bioinformatics curriculum, training and consultation in faculty, staff and student research projects, and infrastructure integration between the Institute and Academic Computing Services. He designed and implemented the high-performance linux based computing environment within the Institute used throughout the university for research computing.

Ryan Golhar received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics from UMDNJ in 2006, under the supervision of Dr. Bruce Byrne and Dr. Ming Ouyang. His dissertation topic was on Intron Evolution in Chicken, Human, and Mouse.

Dr. Golhar's research interests include intron evolution, scientific programming, high-performance computing, biological databases, and sequence analysis among others.