KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Efficient and Practical Algorithis for Studying the History of Recombination in Populations

Prof. Daniel Gusfield
University of California, Davis, USA

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Biography of the Keynote Speaker

Dan Gusfield's background is in combinatorial optimization and various applications of combinatorial optimization. He has worked extensively on problems of network flow, matroid optimization, statistical data security, stable marriage and matching, string algorithms and sequence analysis, phylogenetic tree inference, haplotype inference, and inference of phylogenetic networks with homoplasy and recombination. He received his Ph.D. in 1980 from UC Berkeley, working with Richard Karp, and was an Assistant Professor at Yale University from 1980 to 1986. He moved to UC Davis in July 1986. Since then, he has mostly addressed problems in computational biology and bioinformatics. His main funding for computational biology and bioinformatics came initially from the Department of Energy Human Genome Project through the Lawrence Berkeley Labs Human Genome Center, then directly from DOE. Since then, the NSF has funded his work. His book, Algorithms on Strings, Trees and Sequences: Computer Science and Computational Biology, has helped to define the intersection of computer science and bioinformatics. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Computational Biology and wrote the scientific section of the proposal to create the IEEE/ACM Transaction on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. He currently serves as the journal's founding Editor-in-Chief. He has served on many NSF and DOE research-proposal panels on computer science, bioinformatics, and computational biology,
and on numerous conference program committees. At UC Davis he was chair of the Computer Science Department for four years, and wrote the bioinformatics section (one of three) of the Genomics/Bioinformatics initiative proposal that resulted in the creation of the UC Davis Genomics Center.
Some recent papers and powerpoint from some recent talks, along with software, can be obtained at his webpage.

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