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Bader, David

Associate Professor
Executive Director of High-Performance Computing
College of Computing High-performance computing for computational biology, parallel algorithms, bioinformatics, phylogeny reconstruction, epidemiology, protein-protein interaction networks, and large-scale graph analysis.

Borodovsky, Mark

Regents' Professor, Director School of Biology and Biomedical Engineering DNA and protien sequence analysys: gene transfer, molecular evolution, applications of information theory, hidden Markov models, Markov chain Monte-Carlo methods
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Bunimovich, Leonid

Regents' Professor School of Mathematics*
and
Adjunct Professor
School of Biology^

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

Harvey, Stephen

Professor, Georgia Tech Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Structural Biology School of Biology Macromolecular structure and dynamics and the relationship of these to biological function. Structure-function relationships in the ribosome. Lipproteins and atheroschlerosis. Viral assembly.

Heitsch, Christine E.

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.

Jordan, King

Associate Professor School of Biology Genome evolution, transposable elements, gene regulation and expression, non-coding RNAs, convergent evolution

Kemp, Melissa

Assistant Professor The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University Signal transduction network inference, post-translational thiol modifications, nonlinear dynamics of biochemical systems.

Lee, Eva

Associate
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

Navathe, Shamkant

Professor College of Computing Database design, modeling and integration: genomic data management, intelligent information retrieval, data mining and warehousing, web-based knowledge warehouses and mobile database synchronization

Randall, Dana

Assistant Professor College of Computing Sampling techniques for problems arising in computer science and statistical physics. Designed the first provably efficient sampling algorithms for problems including Ising models, self-avoiding walks and dimmer systems.

Schmidt-Krey, Ingeborg

Assistant Professor School of Biology Structure and function of eukaryotic membrane proteins; two-dimensional crystallization; electron crystallography; electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM)

Sherrill, David

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.

Skolnick, Jeffrey

Professor, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Computational Biology Director, Center for the Study of Systems 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; functional genomics; automatic assignment of enzymes to metabolic pathways
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Tannenbaum, Allen

Chair Professor School of Biomedical Engineering Biomedical engineering: computer vision, image processing, biomolecular imaging
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Vidakovic, Brani

Professor School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Interests:
Wavelets; Statistical analysis of high frequency data;
Random Processes that scale, Long Range Dependence;
Multifractality, Bayesian statistical modeling,
Nonparametric statistical inference.

Vigoda, Eric

Associate Professor College of Computing Research Interests: Randomized Algorithms, especially Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods; Statistical Physics; Analysis of Markov chain models arising in Evolutionary Biology

Voit, Eberhard

Professor and Eminent Scholar in Biological Systems Department of Biomedical Engineering Research Interests: Biomedical Systems Analysis, Mathematical Modeling and Simulation, Metabolic Pathways and Networks, Multi-level Assessments of Biological Complexity, S-systems

Wang, Dongmei May

Assistant Professor School of Biomedical Engineering Research Interests: Medical informatics and bioimaging, developing diverse biomedical data analysis, modeling, interpretation algorithms and management infrastructure for disease detection, treatment, and drug discovery.

Weiss, Howard

Professor School ofMathematics Nonlinear dynamics: population biology/ecology, spatial models of infectious diseases, agent-based models, symbolic dynamics, wavelets

Weitz, Joshua

Assistant Professor School of Biology Theoretical ecology; bacterial viruses; microbial communities; biological networks; vascular plants; scaling laws; disease dynamics; interacting particle systems; adaptive dynamics.

Yi, Soojin

Assistant Professor School of Biology Research Interests: Comparative Genomics, Molecular Evolution, Bioinformatics, Population Genetics