Research

We are interested in solving the challenging computational problems in biology. Specifically, we aim to

  • study theory and design algorithms for the mathematical formulations abstracted from computational biology, and
  • develop tools and software that can be widely used and impactful to advance biology and biomedicine.

Current research topics include:

  • locality sensitive hashing
  • transcriptome assembly
  • single-cell RNA-seq analysis
  • tools for analyzing error-prone long-reads
  • genome rearrangements
  • any fundamental, algorithmically interesting problem in computational biology

Our research is generously supported by the Penn State start-up funds, the Charles K. Etner Early Career Professorship, NSF DBI-2019797, NIH R01HG011065, and NSF CAREER award.