Service
Current positions include:
Visiting Lecturer, Dept of Chemical Engineering, MIT; Jan. 2000 -- present
Associate Editor, Genomics; 2003 -- present
Associate Member, Editorial Board Gene Therapy and Molecular Biology; 2004 -- present
Member of Advisory Council, Bioinformatics Master's Program, Oxford University; 2004 -- present
Member, College of Fellows, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering; elected in February 2003
Member, Editorial Board, Briefings in Bioinformatics; 1999 -- 2004
Other professional service activities include (in reverse chronological order):
PC Member of the 2006 5th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB 2006), Eilat, Israel.
PC Member of the 2006 3rd Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS 2006), Mountain View, CA.
PC Member of the 2006 5th IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference (CSB 2006), Stanford, CA.
PC Member of the 2005 4th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB 2005 and JBI 2005), Madrid, Spain.
PC Member of the 2005 2nd Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS 2005), Mountain View, CA.
PC Member of the 2005 4th IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference (CSB 2005), Stanford, CA.
PC Member of the 2005 13th Annual Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB '05), Detroit, MI.
PC Member of the 2005 International Workshop on Biomedical Data Engineering (BMDE 2005), Tokyo, Japan.
co-Chair of the 2004 4th ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics held in conjunction with the ACM SIGKDD Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
PC member of the 2004 16th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2004)
PC member of the 2004 SIAM Bioinformatics Workshop held in conjunction with the 4th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining
PC member of the 2003 15th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2003)
PC member of the 2002 6th Annual ACM Int. Conf. on Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB '02)
PC member of the 2002 10th Annual Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB '02)
PC member of the 5th Annual ACM Int. Conf. on Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB '01)
PC member of the 2001 International Conference on Biocomputing
Associate Guest Editor for a 2001 Special Issue of the IEEE Intelligent Systems on Intelligent Systems in Biology
PC member of the 2001 International Workshop on Bioinformatics in Data Mining (BIOKDD '01) held in conjunction with the ACM SIGKDD Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
organization of the 1999 " Workshop on the Challenges and Opportunities in Genomics: Production, Storage, Mining and Use" sponsored by the Institute For Mathematics And Its Applications (IMA)
Finally, earlier activities include:
Adjunct Professor, Computer Science Department of New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in the Spring of 2000
Associate Guest Editor, IEEE Intelligent Systems, Special Issue On ‘Intelligent Systems in Biology,’ September-October 2001.
Guest Editor for a 1997 Special Issue of IEEE Computational Science and Engineering on Geometric Hashing and its applications.
Associations
I am a Senior Member of the IEEE/IEEE Computer Society, and a member of American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and serve as a regular reviewer for U.S. and Foreign Government funding agencies.
Awards
Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering; 2003
Harold Grad Memorial Award, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences;1991
Fullbright Scholarship; 1985-1990
