Our faculty are engaged in cutting-edge research, both in the development of novel algorithms used in bioinformatics and also application of a variety of bioinformatics and computational tools to interesting and challenging questions at the intersection of life sciences and computer science. They present work at national and international conferences and publish results in renowned journals. They are principal investigators, currently leading projects funded by more than $1XXM in awards. They are also educators, teaching the courses and involving many of our graduate students in these research efforts. (See highlights of our students’ research.)
Research areas
Details of our research activities can be found below among the list of grants and publications, and on individual faculty member’s webpages. The research areas span both computational and biological questions, often within the same project. A few broad areas of research include:
Computational research areas:
Algorithms
(Erin Chambers, Michael Goldwasser, David Letscher)
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
(Jie Hou, Ted Ahn)
Computational Topology
(Erin Chambers, David Letscher)
Data Science
(David Letscher, Haijun Gong
Cloud Computing and HPC
(Ted Ahn)
Biological research areas:
Genome evolution
(Dapeng Zhang, Zhenguo Lin, Allison Miller)
Microbiome and Genome assembly
(Ted Ahn, Zhenguo Lin)
Plant phenotyping and evolution
(Erin Chambers, David Letscher, Allison Miller)
Protein evolution and structure prediction
(Dapeng Zhang, Jie Hou)
Data mining for multiple omics
(Ted Ahn, Jie Hou, Maureen Donlin, Haijun Gong)
Biostatistics and modeling
(Gerado Camilo, Haijun Gong)