Please note: I will be on Sabbatical leave during Fall 2008 and Spring 2009,
visiting
DIMACS center of Rutgers University and Lewis-Sanger
Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University.
I can still be reached via email. However, as I will not be at UIC for most
of the time, the response time could be slower than normal.
I apologize for the delay in advance.
My specific research interests include
designing and implementing efficient computational methods for
computationally hard problems in bioinformatics, systems biology and hybrid systems.
For example, my recent works for the last couple of years have dealt with synthesizing signal transduction networks from
both direct and couble-causal experimental evidences, understanding their dynamical and connectivity nature (properties) and
reverse engineering such networks via sub-modular response methods. Outside systems biology and biological networks, I have
also been involved in other research projects such as
protein sequence designs and protein substructure comparisons in proteomics and DNA bar-coding issues.
Outside biology, my broader research
interests in computer science include designing efficient algorithms for
computationally hard problems in diverse areas such as computational
geometry, VLSI/CAD, parallel computing, optical networks, graph-theoretic
problems and combinatorial auctions. I am also interested in lower-bound
proofs for computationally hard problems.
My research works have been supported by NSF grants, including an
NSF career award.
To know more about about myself, my research and other
stuff, please follow one of the following links.
Please check my
tentative travel schedule
for availability for meeting.
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a great deal on where you want to get to", said the Cat.
"I don't care much where-", said Alice.
"Then it does not matter which way you go", said the Cat.
(from "Alices Adventures in Wonderland and through the Looking Glass")
Guest editor (with Piotr Berman and Jie Liang),
special issue of
Algorithmica
(Volume 48, Number 4, August 2007)
on
Algorithmic Methodologies for processing
Protein Structures, Sequences and Networks
Few RA positions are available starting Fall 2009.
You may apply for CV or other related information; I will respond if I am interested
in your qualifications.
