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Luay Nakhleh
Rice UniversityDepartment: Computer ScienceAddress: Duncan Hall, Rm 3119 Phone: 713-348-3959 Fax: 713-348-5930 Email: nakhleh@cs.rice.edu Web: www.cs.rice.edu/nakhleh/ |
Education
B.S., Computer Science, Technion�Israel Institute of Technology
M.S., Computer Science, Texas A&M University
Ph.D., Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
Honors
Most Recent:
08/2006 Early Career Award. The Department of Energy, USA.
05/2006 The Roy E. Campbell Faculty Development Award. The George R. Brown School of Engineering, Rice University.
07/2005 Best Paper Award. The First IEEE Workshop on High Performance Computing in Medicine and Biology (HiPCoMP 2005), Fukuoka, Japan.
05/2005 Outstanding Dissertation Award (Mathematics, Physical Sciences, and Engineering category), The University of Texas at Austin. This award is presented annually at UT Austin to four students in four different categories in recognition of the outstanding PhD dissertations in each of these categories.
04/2005 Computer Sciences Bert Kay Outstanding Dissertation Award. This award is presented annually at the Department of Computer Sciences, UT Austin, in recognition of the outstanding PhD dissertation.
Research Topic
Computational biology and bioinformatics
Research Description
Computational biology and bioinformatics, particularly phylogenetics, detecting and reconstructing horizontal gene transfer, gene finding, genotype-phenotype associations, and signaling networks.
Computational phylogenetics in Historical Linguistics.
Algorithm design and analysis.
Experimental and empirical performance studies.
Selected Publications
- C. Than&Dagger and L. Nakhleh, "Species tree inference by minimizing deep coalescences." PLoS Computational Biology, 5(9): e1000501, 2009.
- L. Nakhleh, "Evolutionary phylogenetic networks: models and issues." In: The Problem Solving Handbook for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, L. Heath and N. Ramakrishnan (editors). Springer, In press, 2009.
- L. Nakhleh, D. Ruths&Dagger, and H. Innan, "Gene Trees, Species Trees, and Species Networks." In: Meta-analysis and Combining Information in Genetics, R. Guerra and D. Goldstein (editors). CRC Press, In press, 2009.
- T. Ruths&Dagger, D. Ruths&Dagger, and L. Nakhleh, "GS2: An efficiently computable measure of GO-based similarity of gene sets." Bioinformatics, 25(9): 1178-1184, 2009.
- L. Nakhleh, "A Metric on the Space of Reduced Phylogenetic Networks." IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. To appear, 2009.
Lab Members
Current Graduate Students
Former Grad Students
Lab Photos
Last edited on: September 22, 2009