Committees

Steering Chairs

Dan Gusfield , University of California, Davis, USA

Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA

Marie-France Sagot, INRIA, France

General Chairs

Matthew He, Nova Southeastern University, USA

Alexander Zelikovsky, Georgia State University, USA

Program Chairs

Ion Mandoiu, University of Connecticut, USA

Giri Narasimhan, Florida International University, USA

Yanqing Zhang, Georgia State University, USA

Publicity Chairs

Raj Sunderraman, Georgia State University, USA

Finance Chair

Anu Bourgeois, Georgia State University, USA

Local Organizing Chairs

Edward Keith, Nova Southeastern University

Miguel A. Jimenez-Montano, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico

Local Organizing Committee

Ahmed Albatineh, Nova Southeastern University

Ricardo Carrera, Nova Southeastern University

Josh Loomis, Nova Southeastern University

Evan Haskell, Nova Southeastern University

Saeed Rajput, Nova Southeastern University

Reza Razeghifard, Nova Southeastern University

Raisa Szabo, Nova Southeastern University

Web Master

Zejin Jason Ding, Georgia State University, USA


Committee Members

Srinivas Aluru
Iowa State University, USA

Danny Barash
Ben-Gurion, Israel

Anne Bergeron
Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

Tanya Berger-Wolf
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Daniel Berrar
University of Ulster, UK

Olivier Bodenreider
National Library of Medicine, NIH, USA

Paola Bonizzoni
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Daniel Brown
University of Waterloo, Canada

Liming Cai
University of Georgia, USA

Luonan Chen
Osaka Sangyo University, Japan

Bhaskar Dasgupta
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Colin Dewey
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Werner Dubitzky
University of Ulster, UK

Guillaume Fertin
Université de Nantes, France

Liliana Florea
George Washington University, USA

Jean Gao
University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Mikhail Gelfand
IITP, Russia

Michael Gribskov
Purdue University, USA

Katia Guimaraes
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

Robert Harrison
Georgia State University, USA

Jieyue He
Southeast University, China

Vasant Honavar
Iowa State University, USA

Lars Kaderali
University of Heidelberg, Germany

Ming-Yang Kao
Northwestern University, USA

George Karypis
University of Minnesota, USA

Yury Khudyakov
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA

Jing Li
Case Western Reserve University, USA

Yiming Li
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Guohui Lin
University of Alberta, Canada

Stefano Lonardi
Uuniversity of California at Riverside, USA

Jingchu Luo
Peking University, China

Osamu Maruyama
Kyushu University, Japan

Satoru Miyano
University of Tokyo, Japan

Bernard Moret
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Craig Nelson
University of Connecticut, USA

Laxmi Parida
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Itsik Pe'er
Columbia University, USA

Mihai Pop
University of Maryland, USA

Teresa Przytycka
NCBI, NIH, USA

Sven Rahmann
Technical University of Dortmund, Germany

Sanguthevar Rajasekaran
University of Connecticut, USA

Shoba Ranganathan
Macquarie University, Australia

Isidore Rigoutsos
IBM Research, USA

Cenk Sahinalp
Simon Fraser, Canada

David Sankoff
University of Ottawa, Canada

Russell Schwartz
Carnegie Mellon University, USA

João Carlos Setubal
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

Mona Singh
Princeton University, USA

Steve Skiena
State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA

Donna Slonim
Tufts University, USA

Ramanathan Sowdhamini
NCBS, India

Jens Stoye
Universität Bielefeld, Germany

Wing-Kin Sung
National University of Singapore, Singapore

Sing-Hoi Sze
Texas A&M University, USA

Haixu Tang
Indiana University, USA

Gabriel Valiente
Technical University of Catalonia, Spain

Jean-Philippe Vert
Ecole des Mines de Paris, France

Stéphane Vialette
Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France

Gwenn Volkert
Kent State University, USA

Li-San Wang
University of Pennsylvania, USA

Lusheng Wang
City University of Hong Kong, China

Carsten Wiuf
University of Aarhus, Denmark

Hongwei Wu
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Yufeng Wu
University of Connecticut, USA

Dong Xu
University of Missouri-Columbia, USA

Kaizhong Zhang
University of West Ontario, Canada

Leming Zhou
University of Pittsburgh, USA