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, analyzing and designing communication networks (Internet, Ultra Wide Band Radio).

UCI Positions

• Professor of Computer Science in the School of Information and Computer Sciences
• Director of the Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics
• 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

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