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Name: Srinivas Aluru office: 3227 Coover phone: 515.294.3539 web: vulcan.ece.iastate.edu/~aluru e-mail: aluru@iastate.edu office hours: by appointment |
Name: Benjamin Jackson office: 3101 Coover phone: 515.294.3811 e-mail: zbbrox@iastate.edu office hours: by appointment |
Srinivas Aluru is a Professor and Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He is a member of the Laurence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics, and the Center for Plant Genomics at Iowa State. Earlier, he served as the chair of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology graduate program at Iowa State, and has held faculty positions at New Mexico State University and Syracuse University. He received his B. Tech degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India in 1989, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Iowa State University in 1991 and 1994, respectively. Dr. Aluru is a recipient of the NSF Career award in 1997, an IBM faculty award in 2002, Iowa State University Young Engineering Faculty Research Award in 2002, and the Warren B. Boast Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2005. He is an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor from 2004 to 2006. His research interests include parallel algorithms and applications, bioinformatics and computational biology, and combinatorial scientific computing. He served on numerous program committees and has taken up leadership roles at several conference and workshops in these areas. His contributions to computational biology are in computational genomics, string algorithms, and parallel methods for solving large-scale problems arising in biology. He co-chairs an annual workshop in High Performance Computational Biology and edited a comprehensive handbook on computational molecular biology. He is a member of ACM, SIAM, Life Sciences Society, and a senior member of IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.
Benjamin N. Jackson is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University, where he is a recipient of a USDA-MGET interdisciplinary fellowship, and a GAANN scholarship. Prior to study at ISU, he was a developer of the IBM Websphere product in Rochester, Minnesota. He authored the first chapter in the Handbook of Computational Molecular Biology on the topic of sequence alignment. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from Iowa State in 2001. His research interests include Computational Biology, Parallel Algorithms, and Scientific Computing.