The driving interest behind my efforts is to understand natural and artificial intelligence. Examples of current project in my group include developing machine learning and other statistical approaches for AI and large-scale data mining, developing chemistry expert systems, predicting protein properties, computationally screening and designing new drugs and chemical interactions, comparing genomes, and modeling metabolic, signaling, and regulatory networks in systems biology.

UCI Positions

• Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Computer Science, School of Information and Computer Sciences
• Director, Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics
• Associate Director, Center for Machine Learning and Data Mining
• Joint appointments in the Departments of Biological Chemistry, Developmental and Cell Biology, and Biomedical Engineering.
• Member of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
• Member of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences

Background

Ph.D. Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, 1986

Honors and Awards

• Lew Allen Research Award
• Laurel Wilkening Faculty Innovation Award
• Microsoft Faculty Research Award
• Elected Felow AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artifical Intelligence)
• Elected Felow AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
• 2010 Eduardo R. Caianiello Prize from the Italian Neural Network Society (SIREN)

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