Faculty
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Marek Chrobak
Office: Engineering II Room 406
Phone: (951) 827-3769
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Tao Jiang
Office: Engineering II Room 336
Phone: (951) 827-2991
Design and analysis of algorithms, with emphasis on approximation algorithms
and average-case analysis; computational molecular biology, with emphasis on
comparative genomics, SNP's and haplotype inference, genome-wide analysis of
structures of gene families. Applications of Kolmogorov complexity.
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Neal Young
Office: Engineering II Room 423
Phone: (951) 827-7146
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Stefano Lonardi
Office: Engineering II Room 317
Phone: (951) 827-2203
Design of algorithms for mining large datasets in molecular biology, in
particular of data mining algorithms on bio-sequences and biological
networks; also, data compression and information theory.
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Students and postdocs
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YongHui Wu
Ph.D. Computer Science (2008)
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Vladimir Vacic
Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science
Bioinformatics, machine learning, algorithms, data mining
and data visualization. More specifically, protein-protein
interactions involving folding and binding; analysis and prediction of
protein structure, function and post-translational modifications;
statistical sequence analysis; small RNA discovery; and comparative genomics.
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Christos Koufogiannakis
Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science
Design and analysis of efficient approximation algorithms for combinatorial
optimization problems, Lagrangian relaxation.
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Elena Harris
Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science
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Wei-Bung Wang
Ph.D. student, Computer Science
Bioinformatics, algorithms, haplotype inference, tag SNP selection.
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Guanqun Shi
Ph.D. student, Computer Science
Algorithms, computational biology, comparative genomics, ortholog assignment.
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Yang Yang
Visiting researcher
Bioinformatics, machine learning and pattern recognition.
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Alumni
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Serdar Bozdag
Ph.D. Computer Science (2008)
National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
Computational biology, bioinformatics, data compression, and algorithm desing & analysis. More specifically, physical mapping in plant biology, genome analysis.
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Zhaocheng Fan
Visiting researcher
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Motif finding, ncRNA prediction, comparative genomics.
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Qi Fu
Ph.D. Computer Science (2007)
Google, Inc., Irvine, CA
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Zheng Fu
Ph.D. Computer Science (2007)
Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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Lan Liu
Ph.D. Computer Science (2007)
Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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Mathilde Hurand
Visiting researcher
Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
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Zheng Liu
Ph.D. Computer Science (2006)
City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA
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Jie Zheng
Ph.D. Computer Science (2006)
NCBI, Bethesda, MD
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Wojciech Jawor
Ph.D. Computer Science (2006)
Shopzilla, Los Angeles, CA
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Qiaofeng Yang
Ph.D. Bioinformatics (2006)
M.S. Computer Science (2006)
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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Chuhu Yang
Ph.D. Bioinformatics (2005)
EraGen Biosciences, Madison, WI
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Xin Chen
Postdoc (2005)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Haifeng Li
Ph.D. Computer Science (2005)
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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Petr Kolman
Postdoc (2004)
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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Jing Li
Ph.D. Computer Science (2004)
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
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Andres Figeuroa
Ph.D. Computer Science (2004)
University of Texas - Pan American, Edinburg, TX
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