Kwanho Kim, who I have been working with since 2017, graduated today with his Masters of Science in Computational Biology. He successfully defended his thesis titled “Analyzing the influence of assessment metrics on automated transcript assembly parameter selection” on April 30 and will be starting a position at The Broad Institute this summer. Congratulations Kwanho!
Year: 2019
Moving to UTEP
I am excited to announce that I will be starting a position as an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at El Paso in the Fall of 2019! Find out more at my group’s website.
I am in search of students to work on topics related to automated parameter selection. Contact me if you (or someone you know) is interested!
“Locality sensitive hashing for the edit distance” accepted to ISMB/ECCB 2019
Related to the work we presented at ISMB last year, our new work on making a new hashing scheme that improves on Jaccard and Hamming distances for searching large sequences was recently accepted to ISMB/ECCB 2019 in Basel, Switzerland. This is work with Guillaume Marçais, Carl Kingsford, and Prashant Pandey. A preprint of the manuscript is on bioRxiv (see Publications).
ISCB-SC 2018 Symposia Article Published
Our editorial describing the symposia that were hosted by the ISCB Student Council over 2018 calendar year was recently published in F1000 Research. I am proud to say this is the first year I attended 2 out of the 3. While I was not a primary organizer for any of the events, all three were well received and the symposia chairs, the committee members, and all of the attendees are to thank.
https://f1000research.com/articles/8-34/v1
With the publication of this article I am also ending my tenure on the ISCB-SC Executive Team, which has been a great experience.