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About me: I am an associate professor at the University of Virginia with appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science. Previously, I was a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech. I received my Ph.D. in ECE from UIUC in 2013. I also received an M.Sc. in mathematics from UIUC in 2012 and an M.Sc. in ECE from the University of Toronto in 2008. My Erdos number is 2 and here is my academic geneology (courtesy of Anatoly Khina).
My interests include information and coding theory, bioinformatics/computational biology, and machine learning. I particularly gravitate towards problems that lie in the intersections of these areas, such as data storage in DNA, compression of biological data, and probabilistic and information-theoretic modeling of DNA mutations.
Research Group: Information Processing and Storage Lab
Current Members:
- Yuting Li, Graduate Research Assistant
- Kallie Whritenour, Graduate Research Assistant
- Sarvin Motamen, Graduate Research Assistant
- Haoxuan Luo, Gradatue Research Assistant
Alumni:
- Hao Lou, Ph.D., 2023, Jiwei Fund, Shanghai
- Yuanyuan Tang, Ph.D., 2023, Broadcom
- Tao Jin, Ph.D., 2025, Amazon
- Zhuoer Shen, M.S., 2025, Ph.D. Student at UCSB