Research Interests
- Computational study of microRNA and long non-coding RNAs
- Computational methods to study epigenetic and genetic Regulation
- Genomics and Cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson diseases
- Big and Small Data mining, Machine Learning and Statistical Pattern Recognition
Other Experience
- Research Assistant Professor, Indiana University 2006-2008
Professional Activities
- Panelist for National Institutes of Health (NIH) (2016)
- Panelist for National Science Foundation (NSF) (2009, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2019)
- Panelist for The American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012)
- Reviewer for Pattern Recognition, Neural Networks, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Nature Scientific Report, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, PLOS ONE, and others
- Program Committee Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (2009, 2010), Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology (2011,2012), ASE/IEEE International Conference on BioMedical Computing (2012), 2nd International Conference on Data Science and Information Technology (2019), 2nd International Conference on Algorithms, Computing and Artificial Intelligence (2019)
- Local Arrangement chair of ACM BCB conference (2012)
Honors & Awards
- NSF CAREER Award, 2012-2019
- Research Incentive Award, UCF 2014
- Reach for the Stars Award, UCF 2015
- Research Incentive Award, UCF 2019