Prospective graduate students: We are always interested in working with motivated graduate students with a strong mathematical background. Prospective candidates are encouraged to apply to the ECE or CS departments at the University of Virginia.
Latest News
- July. 2020: Our paper Single-Error Detection and Correction for Duplication and Substitution Channels is accepted by IEEE Trans. Information Theory.
- May. 2020: Our paper Evolution of k-mer Frequencies and Entropy in Duplication and Substitution Mutation Systems was published in the IEEE Trans. Information Theory.
- Dec. 2019: Our paper Rank Aggregation via Heterogeneous Thurstone Preference Models, is available on arXiv.
- Nov. 2019: Our paper Finite-time Behavior of k-mer Frequencies and Waiting Times in Noisy-Duplication Systems was presented at the Asilomar Conference, Monterey, CA.
- Sep. 2019: Our paper Error-correcting Codes for Noisy Duplication Channels was presented at the Allerton Conference, Monticello, IL.
- July 2019: Our proposal, CIF: Small: Collaborative Research: Rank Aggregation with Heterogeneous Information Sources: Efficient Algorithms and Fundamental Limits, was funded by the NSF ($250,000).
- June 2019: Our paper Single-Error Detection and Correction for Duplication and Substitution Channels was presented at ISIT, Paris, France.
- Jan. 2019: Our paper Estimation of duplication history under a stochastic model for tandem repeats was published in BMC Bioinformatics.
- Dec. 2018: Our draft, Evolution of k-mer Frequencies and Entropy in Duplication and Substitution Mutation Systems, is available on arXiv.
- Oct. 2018: Our proposal, CIF: NSF-BSF: Characterization and Mitigation of Noise in a Live DNA Storage Channel, was funded by the NSF ($500,000, Co-PIs: Mete Civelek, Jehoshua Bruck, Moshe Schwartz).
- Sep. 2018: Our draft, Reconciling Similar Sets of Data, is available on arXiv.
- Aug. 2018: Our draft, The Capacity of Some Polya String Models, is available on arXiv.
- June 2018: Our paper Evolution of N-Gram Frequencies Under Duplication and Substitution Mutations was presented at ISIT, Vail, CO.
- May 2018: Our proposal, Predicting Antibiotic Resistance, was funded by the Global Infectious Diseases Institute ($70,000, Co-PI: Jason Papin).
- Apr. 2018: I received the 2017 Outstanding Teacher Award from the ECE department.
- Mar. 2018: My CRII proposal, CRII: CIF: Model-based Compression of Biological Sequences, was funded by the NSF ($175,000, Single PI).
- Dec. 2017: Our paper Duplication Distance to the Root for Binary Sequences was published in the IEEE Trans. Information Theory.
- Oct. 2017: Our paper Reconciling Similar Sets was presented at the Allerton Conference, Monticello, IL.
- Oct. 2017: Our paper Capacity and Expressiveness of Genomic Tandem Duplication was published in the IEEE Trans. Information Theory.
- Sep. 2017: Our paper Computing Similarity Distances Between Rankings was published in Discrete Applied Mathematics.
- Aug. 2017: This semester I am teaching Statistical Learning and Graphical Models (ECE,CS 4501/6501).
- June 2017: We received a Research Innovation Award from UVA Engineering school, funding our project “Robust Data Fusion in Dynamic Environments” (Co-PI: Gu).
- June 2017: Our paper Noise and Uncertainty in String-duplication Systems was presented at ISIT, Aachen, Germany.
- Mar. 2017: Our paper Duplication-correcting codes for data storage in the DNA of living organisms was published in the IEEE Trans. Information Theory.