Kelly Westbrooks

Ph.D. Student
Department of Computer Science
Georgia State University
34 Peachtree Street
Suite 1415
Atlanta, GA 30303
(404) 463-2808
csckewx [at] cs [dot] gsu [dot] edu

Research Interests:

Computational Biology, Bioinformatics

Advisor:

Alexander Zelikovsky

Education:

• Ph.D. Computer Science (in progress)
  Georgia State University - Expected graduation in 2008
• M.S. Computer Science
  Georgia State University - 2006
  Thesis: "Approximation and Exact Algorithms for the Minimum Pathway Representation Problem"
• B.S. Applied Mathematics
  Georgia Institute of Technology - 2001

Publications:

1. Réka Albert, Bhaskar DasGupta, Riccardo Dondi, Sema Kachalo, Eduardo Sontag, Alexander Zelikovsky and Kelly Westbrooks, A Novel Method for Signal Transduction Network Inference from Indirect Experimental Evidence, 7th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI), R. Giancarlo and S. Hannenhalli (Eds.), LNBI 4645, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 407-419, September 2007.
2. Réka Albert, Bhaskar DasGupta, Riccardo Dondi, Sema Kachalo, Eduardo Sontag, Alexander Zelikovsky and Kelly Westbrooks, A Novel Method for Signal Transduction Network Inference from Indirect Experimental Evidence, Journal of Computational Biology, Volume 14, Number 7, pp. 927-949, 2007.
3. J. He, K. Westbrooks and A. Zelikovsky, "Linear Reduction Methods for Tag SNP Selection," International Journal on Bioinformatics Research and Applications 1(3), 2005, pp. 249-260. [pdf]

Teaching

1. Summer 2007 - Principles of Computer Programming I
2. Fall 2006 - Web Programming
3. Fall 2005 - Computers & Applications