Projects in my group include developing machine learning and other statistical methods for AI and large-scale data analysis, understanding and predicting protein structures, computationally screening and designing new drugs and chemical interactions, modeling and understanding metabolic, signaling, and regulatory networks (systems biology), building a computer GO player, understanding genome evolution, mining large software repositories, analyzing and designing communication networks.

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
• Felow AAAI (Association Advancement Artifical Intelligence)

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