The Merck Computational Biology and Chemistry Program

Program Faculty

Ziv Bar-Joseph
Center for Automated Learning and Discovery
Analyzing time series gene expression data, optimal leaf ordering, genetic regulatory networks.
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Guy Bleloch
Computer Science Department, and ALADDIN Center
Adaptive Computation, Data Structures for Graph Compression
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Dannie Durand
Department of Biological Sciences; courtesy appointment in the Computer Science Department
Computational modeling of whole genome evolution
Biol. Sci. web page; Comp. Sci. web page

Michael Erdmann
Computer Science Department
Robotics: mechanics of manipulation, nonprehensile manipulation, parts assembly, cooperating robots, planning under uncertainty, probabilistic strategies, sensing strategies, and automatic planning. Computational Biology: protein folding and structure determination by NMR
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Christos Faloutsos
Computer Science Department and Center for Automated Learning and Discovery
Data mining; Fractals for clustering and spatial access methods; Query by content in multimedia databases; Data base performance evaluation; Medical image databases; Searching in text databases.
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David Hackney
Department of Biological Sciences
Mechanisms, regulation and structure of enzymes; Current research centered on proteins that function as molecular motors, such as the kinesin ATPase that drives fast axonal transport in nerve cells
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Hyung Kim
Department of Chemistry
Computational chemistry
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Maria Kurnikova
Department of Chemistry
Theory and Computer Simulation of Transport Processes through Biological Membranes. Structure-Function Relations in Membrane Proteins
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Jelena Kovacevic
Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Signal modeling and representation, Bioimaging, Communications
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Christopher Langmead
Computer Science Department
Computational Structural Biology: Machine learning applied to high-throughput structure determination and dynamics from sparse experimental data; Systems Biology: Analysis and modeling of complexity in biological systems
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John Lafferty
Computer Science Department and Center for Automated Learning and Discovery
Statistical machine learning, text and natural language processing, information retrieval, information theory, algorithms on graphs and groups
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Frederick Lanni
Department of Biological Sciences
Research geared at understanding the actin-based cytoskeleton in non-muscle cells at a level of detail currently possible only for muscle fibers
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Philip LeDuc
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Molecular and Cellular Biomechanics, Biological/Medical Micro- and Nano-technology
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Tai-Sing Lee
Computer Science Department and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Computational neuroscience, computer vision, neurophysiology of primate vision, statistical learning and inference
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A. Javier Lopez
Department of Biological Sciences
Developmental regulation of alternative splicing; Recursive splicing in large introns
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Jonathan Minden
Department of Biological Sciences
Proteomics, Differential expression of proteins
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Tom Mitchell
Computer Science Department and Center for Automated Learning and Discovery
Making computers improve automatically from experience; learning from text and hypertext, learning by experimentation, data mining of large datasets
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Jose' Moura
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Biomedical Engineering
Signal Processing and Telecommunications; Content-Based Video Processing; Robust Detection and Classification
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Robert F. Murphy
Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Center for Automated Learning and Discovery
Location Proteomics: Automated interpretation of fluorescence microscope images, including classification of protein subcellular location patterns and construction of systematics for protein location; Information Extraction from image and text in Biomedical Journals
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Ramamoorthi Ravi
Graduate School of Industrial Administration; courtesy appointment in the Computer Science Department
Optimization, computational molecular biology
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Kathryn Roeder
Department of Statistics
Mixture models in genomics and disease
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Roni Rosenfeld
Computer Science Department and Center for Automated Learning and Discovery
Computational Biolinguistics
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Gordon Rule
Department of Biological Sciences
Structure determination by NMR & X-ray crystallography
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Russell Schwartz
Department of Biological Sciences
Computational methods for genome polymorphism analysis; modeling and simulation of biological systems
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Schlomo Ta'asan
Department of Mathematical Sciences
From Microscopic Dynamics to Macroscopic Equations; Immune System Modeling; Cellular Modeling; Modeling and Simulation of Biochemical Networks
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Nathan Urban
Department of Biological Sciences
Physiological mechanisms underlying functional and computational properties brain neuronal networks, especially the olfactory system
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Eric Xing
Center for Automated Learning and Discovery and Language Technologies Institute
Statistical machine learning approaches to bio-polymer sequence analysis, genetic inference, comparative genomics and systems biology; algorithms and theory for reasoning and learning under uncertainty
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David Yaron
Department of Chemistry
Computational models of the photophysics of conjugated polymers
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