Research Interest (Publications)

Bioinformatics Projects

• Genome-wide association studies.
• Integrative analysis of functional genomics data.
• Biological network reconstruction.
• miRNA and mRNA expression analysis. (microarray-based and deep-sequencing based)
• Immunoinformatics.
• Prediction of Protein subcellular localization.

Data mining and Machine Learning

• Kernel Methods and Support Vector Machines.
• Statistical Learning.

Algorithm design

• Heuristics.
• Global Optimization.
• Combinatorial Optimization.

Webserver

• Subnuclear Compartments Prediction System. (Version 2.0)

Teaching (past)

• BioE339 - Fall08 : Introduction to Biostatistics.
• BioE482 - Spring07 : Introduction to Optimization Methods in Bioinformatics.
• BioE594 - Spring06 : Design and Implementation of Computational Bioinformatics Methods.

Professional Activity

• Editorial Review Board
• International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics.


• Journal Review
• BMC Bioinformatics.
• BMC Genetics.
• Bioinformatics.
• Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics.
• PLoS Computational Biology.
• European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.
• International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications.
• Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
• International Journal of Biological Macromolecules.
• International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems.
• Neurocomputing.
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
• Mathematical and Computer Modeling.
• Mathematical Problems in Engineering.
• Journal of Discrete Mathematics.
• Journal of Discrete Algorithms.
• SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization.
• Journal of Global Optimization.
• Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan.


• Program Committees and Conference Chairs
• Program Committee, The Third International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management (AAIM'07), Portland, USA , 20-22 June 2007. (link)
• Track Co-Chair, theme of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, the 28th IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference (EMBC06), August 30 to September 3, 2006, New York City, USA. (link)
• Program Committee, the second Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (IICAI-05), December 20-22, 2005, Pune, India. (link)
• Track Chair, theme of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, the 27th IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference (EMBS05), September 1-4, 2005, Shanghai China. (link)
• Track Co-chair, theme of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, the 26th IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference (EMBS04), September 1-5, 2004, San Francisco, California, USA. (link)
• Chair of a session on Bioinformatics, the International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (METMBS '03), June 26-29, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
• Chair of a data mining session, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Nov. 17-20, 2002, San Jose, USA.


• Professional Societies
• The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).
• Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).