Research and interest areas:

• Bioinformatics: Algorithms for large-scale sequence analysis, Phylogenetic trees and networks, RNA secondary structure prediction, Identifying shared substructures in labeled trees, Clustering for DNA clone classification, Finding repetitions in strings, Efficient protein 3D structure searching, Accurate taxonomic assignments.

• Graph algorithms: Graph coloring, Edge orientation of undirected graphs, Succinct data structures for trees, Tree comparison and alignment of trees, Supertrees, Graph exploration, Geometric network design, Exact and approximate pattern matching in graphs, Dynamic tries, Reconstructing a graph from path frequencies.

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

h-index and citation counter. Most recently updated: 2010-01-05.

Other academic activities:

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

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

• 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.

• Referee for various computer science conferences and journals. Please refer to my CV 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), since August 2008.

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