Mihai Pop
Location: (College Park, MD)
Personal Research Web Page: http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/~mpop
Keywords: bioinformatics, computational biology, genome assembly, genome sequencing, cloud computing, graph algorithms
Posted on: Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Broad Research Area: Numerical/Scientific Computing / HPC / Data-Intensive Scalable Computing, Scientific/Medical Informatics, Theory / Algorithms
Research Interests:
Biology research is increasingly moving towards high-throughput experimental techniques, resulting in a deluge of data being deposited in public databases. My research is focused on developing new algorithms and software for analyzing these data. I am particularly interested in computational problems arising from DNA sequencing applications – many problems in this area can be phrased in graph theoretic terms. As a primary application I am interested in metagenomics studies – the exploration of the microbial communities that inhabit our world and our bodies.
In addition I am also interested in more fundamental CS questions related to computational biology, such as the use of cloud computing as an enabling technology for the analysis of large-scale biological data-sets.
A more detailed list of current research in my lab is available at: http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/~mpop/Research.shtml.
