Research

I am working on algorithms for huge data sets, primarily in computational biology, but also in astronomy and social networks. My research includes “compressive genomics,” which co-opts data compression to accelerate analysis on large genomic data sets. I have also worked extensively in structural bioinformatics, and am also interested in programming languages and functional programming. Most fundamentally, I am interested in how nature makes seemingly intractable problems tractable (such as protein folding).