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Professional Experience
Positions and Employment
- 2006-present
Julie Nguyen Brown Professor of Computational and Mathematical Sciences, Brown University
- 2006-present
Director, Center for Computational Molecular Biology, Brown University
- 2005-present
Professor of Computer Science, Brown University
- 2002-2005
Senior Director and Head of Informatics Research Group, Applied Biosystems/Celera Genomics
- 2001-2002
Co-Leader with Gene Myers of the Informatics Research Group, Celera Genomics
- 2000-2001
Senior Director, Informatics Research Group, Celera Genomics
- 1998-2000
Principal Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
- 1994-1998
Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
- 1993-2000
Project Leader, DOE /MICS Computational Biology Project, Sandia National Laboratories
- 1992-1994
Computational Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories
- 1984-1992
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Wesleyan University
- 1979-1983
Researcher, Institute of Mathematics, Al. I. Cuza University, Romania
Other Experience and Professional Memberships
- 2004-present
Visiting Associate, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology
- 2002-present
Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical School, George Washington University
- 1998-2000
Adjunct Associate Professor of Biology, University of New Mexico
- 1997-present
Co-Founder and Steering Committee member, International
Conference on Research in Computational Biology (RECOMB)
- 1984-1992
Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Academic Degrees
- 1979 Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Thesis: Context Sensitive Languages with Applications to Semantics
of Programs and Number Theory
Advisors: Professors Solomon Marcus and Sergiu Rudeanu
- 1975 B.S. in Computer Science, Al. I. Cuza University, Iasi, Romania
Honors: Summa Cum Laude