The driving interest behind my efforts is to understand natural and artificial intelligence. Examples of current projects 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

Honors and Awards

• Lew Allen Research Award
• Laurel Wilkening Faculty Innovation Award
• Microsoft Faculty Research Award
• Fellow AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)
• Fellow AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
• Fellow IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
• 2010 Eduardo R. Caianiello Prize from the Italian Neural Network Society (SIREN)
• Fellow ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
• Fellow ISCB (International Society for Computational Biology)

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