Research Interests
- Computational Biology and BioInformatics
- Theory of Computing, Algorithms and Quantum Computing
Professional Activities
- Program Committee Co-Chair, IEEE ICCABS 2017
- Organizing Committee Member, IDASH Privacy & Security Workshop (2017, 2018)
- Organizing Committee Member, RECOMB Satellite Conferences on Systems Biology and Computational Proteomics (2006)
- Program Committee Member, IEEE ICCABS 2011 – 2014, 2017, 2018, ACM-BCB 2011, 2012, 2013, IEEE BIBM 2011 – 2019, RECOMB-SEQ 2013 – 2015, 2018, 2019, WBAI 2017, 2018, ICIBM 2018, 2019, APBC 2019, BIOKDD 2019, and others
- Associate Editor, Frontiers in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
- Review Editor, Frontiers in Non-Coding RNA
- Reviewer for Israel National Foundation, Austrian Science Fund, and Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies
- Member, The RNA Society
- Member, The American Society of Human Genetics
- Member, International Society for Computational Biology
Honors & Awards
- UCF Research Incentive Award, 2019
- UCF Teaching Incentive Program Award, 2017
- Faculty Member, Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) Honor Society for Computing and Information Disciplines, 2016
- Best Paper Award, ASP-DAC 2016
- Best Paper Award, IEEE ICCABS 2012
- Craig Venter Institute Summer Fellowship, 2006
- California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIT2) Fellowship, 2001