• Bioinformatics: Algorithms for large-scale sequence analysis, Phylogenetic trees, Rooted triplets, Maximum agreement supertrees, Minimally resolved supertrees, Consensus trees, Level-k phylogenetic networks, MUL-trees, RNA secondary structure prediction, Clustering for DNA clone classification, Finding repetitions in strings, Efficient protein 3D structure searching, Metagenomics.

• Graph algorithms: Graph coloring, Edge orientation of undirected graphs, Tree comparison and alignment of trees, Identifying shared substructures in labeled trees, Graph exploration, Geometric network design, Exact and approximate pattern matching in graphs, Reconstructing a graph from path frequencies.

• Data structures: Succinct data structures for trees, Dynamic tries, Compressed Random Access Memory (CRAM).

List of scientific publications. (And this list from the DBLP Bibliography Server.)

h-index and citation counter. Most recently updated: 2011-11-21.

• Invited lecturer at the 3rd CompView Fall School on Algorithmic Bioinformatics, Miura, Japan, 2010-09-01 -- 2010-09-03.
  Organized by Global COE: CompView at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
  Lecture topic: "Algorithms for Reconstructing Phylogenetic Trees".

• Guest lecturer at the Informatics Seminar (Perspective in Informatics 4B), Kyoto University, Japan, 2011-10-27.

• Guest lecturer at Ochanomizu University in the following courses:
  • "General Bioinformatics" (2009-11-25). Given in conjunction with Tokyo Medical and Dental University's "Integrated Bioinformatics" course.
  • "Rigaku Souron" (2009-11-30). Lecture topic: "Exact String Matching".
  • "Bioinformatics/Data Mining" (2010-01-28). Lecture topic: "Introduction to Data Streaming".
  • "Rigaku Souron" (2010-12-06). Lecture topic: "Introduction to Graph Coloring".
  
  
• Several presentations in Ochanomizu University's Center for Informational Biology weekly seminar series, aimed at graduate students and active researchers in Bioinformatics. Click here for a list.

• Member of the Journées Ouvertes Biologie Informatique Mathématiques (JOBIM 2008) organizing committee, Lille, France, 2008.

• Program committee member of the First International Conference on Theories and Applications of Computer Science (ICTACS'06), Vietnam, 2006, and the Second International Conference on Theories and Applications of Computer Science (ICTACS'09), Vietnam, 2009.

• Program committee member of the Fifth International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications (LATA 2011), Tarragona, Spain, 2011.

• Speaker at Ochanomizu University's Tutorial Workshop on Discrete Algorithms and Machine Learning, 2009-07-01. Abstract (English, Japanese). Poster. No registration fee! Everybody's welcome to attend.

• Invited plenary speaker at the 2010 MSP Annual Convention, Cebu City, the Philippines, 2010-05-20 -- 2010-05-21. Organized by the Mathematical Society of the Philippines (MSP).

• Referee for various computer science conferences and journals. Please refer to my CV above for a list.
  

• Regular reviewer for American Mathematical Society (AMS)'s Mathematical Reviews (MR) since May 2007.
  

• Contributor to Springer's Encyclopedia of Algorithms.
  

• Member of the Editorial Board of Algorithms, ISSN 1999-4893, Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI), Switzerland, since August 2008.

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