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FACULTY Computational Genomics	TITLE	DEPARTMENT	RESEARCH AREA
David Bader	Professor, Executive Director of High-Performance Computing	School of Computational Science and Engineering	High-performance computing for computational biology, parallel algorithms, bioinformatics, phylogeny reconstruction, epidemiology, protein-protein interaction networks, and large-scale graph analysis.
Mark Borodovsky	Regents' Professor, Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics	Department of Biomedical Engineering at CoE and School of Computational Science & Engineering	Bioinformatics algorithms, machine learning, gene prediction and structural genomic annotation. (Click for lab web site)
Gregory Gibson	Professor	School of Biology	Statistical genetics: whole genomic association studies.
King Jordan	Associate Professor	School of Biology	Genome evolution, transposable elements, gene regulation and expression, non-coding RNAs, convergent evolution. (Click for lab web site)
Kostas Konstantinidis	Assistant Professor	School of Civil and Environmental Engineering	Environmental microbiology and genomics. Population and single-cell genomics. Computational approaches for studying the ecology and evolution of microorganisms.
Eva Lee	Professor	School of Industrial and Systems Engineering	Biomedical informatics, modeling and computing. Machine learning and pattern recognition approaches to medial diagnosis/clinical data analysis. Genomic pattern recognition and prediction of function regions. Combinatorial approach and fast heuristics for DNA sequencing and multiple alignment problems.
Shamkant Navathe	Professor	School of Computational Science and Engineering	Database design, modeling and integration: genomic data management, intelligent information retrieval, data mining and warehousing, web-based knowledge warehouses and mobile database synchronization.
Haesun Park	Professor	School of Computational Science & Engineering and College of Computing	Pattern Analysis, numerical algorithms, data mining, scientific computing, bioinformatics, information retrieval and parallel computing. (Click for lab web site)
Le Song	Assistant Professor	School of Computational Science and Engineering	Machine learning: bioinformatics algorithms.
Brani Vidakovic	Professor	School of Industrial and Systems Engineering	Wavelets; Statistical analysis of high frequency data; Random Processes that scale. Multifractality, Bayesian statistical modeling, Nonparametric statistical inference.
Eric Vigoda	Associate Professor	School of Computer Science	Randomized Algorithms, especially Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods; Statistical Physics; Analysis of Markov chain models arising in Evolutionary Biology.
Joshua Weitz	Assistant Professor	School of Biology	Theoretical ecology; bacterial viruses; microbial communities; biological networks; vascular plants; scaling laws; disease dynamics; interacting particle systems; adaptive dynamics.
Soojin Yi	Associate Professor	School of Biology	Comparative Genomics, Molecular Evolution, Bioinformatics, Population Genetics.
FACULTY Imaging	TITLE	DEPARTMENT	RESEARCH AREA
Dongmei May Wang	Associate Professor	Department of Biomedical Engineering	Medical informatics and bioimaging, developing diverse biomedical data analysis, modeling, interpretation algorithms and management infrastructure for disease detection, treatment, and drug discovery.
FACULTY Integrative Biosystems	TITLE	DEPARTMENT	RESEARCH AREA
Melissa Kemp	Assistant Professor	Department of Biomedical Engineering	Signal transduction network inference, post-translational thiol modifications, nonlinear dynamics of biochemical systems.
Eberhard Voit	Professor and Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Biological Systems	Department of Biomedical Engineering	Biomedical Systems Analysis, Mathematical Modeling and Simulation, Metabolic Pathways and Networks, Multi-level Assessments of Biological Complexity, S-systems.
FACULTY Population Dynamics	TITLE	DEPARTMENT	RESEARCH AREA
Leonid Bunimovich	Regents' Professor Adjunct Professor	School of Mathematics School of Biology	Compex systems: evolution of complex systems, stochastic processes, inverse problems, dynamics of spatially extended systems, mathematical biology, bioinformatics, and neuroscience.
Howard Weiss	Professor	School of Mathematics	Nonlinear dynamics: population biology/ecology, spatial models of infectious diseases, agent-based models, symbolic dynamics and wavelets.
FACULTY Structural Biology	TITLE	DEPARTMENT	RESEARCH AREA
Christine E. Heitsch	Assistant Professor	School of Mathematics	Discrete mathematical biology, combinatorics on words, and string algorithms. Design, analysis, and prediction of RNA secondary structures and DNA code words. Sequence / structure / function relationships for RNA viral genomes.
David Sherrill	Professor	School of Chemistry & Biochemistry and College of Computing	Benchmark-quality quantum computations on prototypes of noncovalent interactions, particularly pi-pi interactions, including substituent effects. Comparison of potential energy landscapes for model interactions with frequency of contacts in the PDB.
Jeffrey Skolnick	Professor, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Computational Biology	School of Biology	Prediction of protein structure and function from sequence; prediction of protein tertiary and quaternary structure and folding pathways; prediction of small molecule ligands for drug discovery, prediction of druggable protein targets, equilibrium and dynamic properties of lipid bilayers; simulation of virus coat protein assembly.