Research DescriptionDr. Pan’s research spans many aspects in computer science. His work has included research in parallel computing, distributed computing, and grid computing, encompassing architecture, algorithms, and performance evaluation in these areas. For example, he proposed a new computing model based on optical pipelined buses and designed many novel parallel algorithms based on the computing model. He has also published many results in the areas of optical networks and wireless networks. Recently, his research interests have shifted towards bioinformatics and cloud computing. In bioinformatics, his work focuses on protein structure prediction, motif finding in proteins, multiple sequence alignment using different scoring functions and algorithms, clustering methods, and module/complex identification in protein interaction networks. Data mining, graph algorithms, parallel computing, and machine learning methods are used in the research. Cloud computing has emerged rapidly as an exciting new paradigm that offers a challenging model of cyber-physical services and poses fascinating problems. Cloud computing makes data truly mobile; a user can simply access a chosen cloud with any internet-accessible device. Cloud computing overlaps some of the concepts of cluster, distributed, grid, service, ubiquitous, utility, and virtual computing; however, it has emerged from these computing domains and now has its own meaning. Dr. Pan focuses on the following issues in cloud computing: security, fault-tolerance, and autonomic computing Representative PublicationsJ. Wang, M. Li, J. Chen, and Y. Pan, A fast hierarchical clustering algorithm for functional modules discovery in protein interaction networks, IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, to appear. Y. Dai, Y. Xiang, and Y. Pan, Bionic autonomic nervous systems for self-defense against DoS, spyware, malware, virus and fishing, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, Special Issue on Adaptive Security Systems, to appear. P. Loh, S. H. Long, and Y. Pan, Performance evaluation of efficient and reliable routing protocols for fixed-power sensor networks, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 2328–2335, 2009. D. Xiang, Y. Zhang, and Y. Pan, Practical deadlock-free fault-tolerant routing in meshes based on the planar network fault model, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 58, no. 5, pp. 620–633, 2009. X. Wang, P. Fan, J. Li, and Y. Pan, Modeling and cost analysis of movement-based location management for PCS networks with HLR/VLR architecture and general location area and cell residence time distributions, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 3815–3831, 2008.
J. He, H. Hu, R. Harrison, P.C. Tai, and Yi Pan, Rule generation for protein secondary structure prediction with support vector machines and decision tree, IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 46–53, 2006. |
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