Research Interest (Publications)

Bioinformatics Projects

• Immunoinformatics
• Prediction of Protein Sub-cellular and Sub-nuclear localization
• Identification of Biological Networks

• Kernel Methods and Support Vector Machines
• Statistical Learning

• Heuristics
• Global Optimization
• Combinatorial Optimization

Webserver

• Subnuclear Compartments Prediction System ( Version 2.0)

Teaching ( past )

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

Professional Activity

Journal Review

• BMC Bioinformatics
• Bioinformatics
• Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics
• PLoS Computational Biology
• 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.

NSF Panels, March 2004, May 2004

Professional Societies

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