Stefano Lonardi

Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering

University of California, Riverside, CA 92521

Ph.D., Computer Science, Purdue University, 2001.

Faculty member of the Graduate Program in Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics, the Center for Plant Cell Biology, the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, the Algorithms and Computational Biology Lab.

Research Interests

Computational Molecular Biology
Data Compression
Data Mining

Program Committees

ICDM'08 (Pisa, Italy)
BIOKDD'08 PC co-chair (Las Vegas, NV)
WABI'08 (Karlsruhe, Germany)
CSB'08 (Stanford, CA)

Past: CPM'08 (Pisa, Italy), DCC'08 (Snowbird, UT), SDM'08 (Atlanta, GA), IWOCA'07 (Newcastle, Australia), WABI'07 (Philadelphia, PA), BIOKDD'07 PC co-chair (San Jose, CA), SDM'07 (Minneapolis, MN), DCC'07 (Snowbird, UT), ICTAI'06 (Washington, DC), SPIRE'06 (Glasgow, UK), WEBKDD'06 (Philadelphia, PA), CPM'06 (Barcelona, Spain), SDM'06 (Bethesda, MD), APBC'06 (Taiwan), WEBKDD'05 (Chicago, IL), SPIRE'05 (Buenos Aires, Argentina), ICTAI'05 (Hong Kong), CPM'04 (Istanbul, Turkey), BIBE'04 (Taichung, Taiwan), ICTAI'04 (Boca Raton, FL), ICML'03 (Washington, DC), SSDBM'03 (Cambrigde, MA), ICTAI'03 (Sacramento, CA)

Courses

Current: none

CS 218 [Design and Analysis of Algorithms] F07, W07, W06, W05
CS 141 [Data Structures and Algorithms] S07, F04, W04, W03, S02
CS 179 [Project in Computer Science (Database systems)]S04
CS 234 [Computational Methods for the Analysis of Biomolecular Data] W08, F06, F05, F03
CS 260 [Pattern Discovery in Biosequences] W03, F01
CS 150 [The Theory of Automata and Formal Languages] S06, F02

Software

LRTag: SNP markers tag tool
MSTMap: genetic linkage map tool
FLAT - Flowgram Alignment Tool
Composition Profiler
OligoSpawn
LZRS'77: Error-resilient data compression
Off-Line data compressor

Resources

Pattern Matching Pointers
CPM Archive

News

"UCR’s Researchers Discover New Way to Store Information Via DNA"
Distinguished Lecture Series 2007-2008
USDA grant award (USDA site)
"When it Comes to Evolution, Seeing May Be Believing"
NSF-CAREER award (NSF site)
NSF plant genome grant (NSF site)

Current students

Serdar Bozdag (PhD candidate, CS&E)
Vladimir Vacic (PhD candidate, CS&E)
Yonghui Wu (PhD candidate, CS&E)
Elena Harris (PhD candidate, CS&E)

Lab alumni

Jie Zheng (PhD 2006, CS&E, now with NCBI)
Qiaofeng Yang (PhD 2006, GGB, now with LBNL)
George Hsu (MS 2005, CS&E, now PhD student in GGB)
Yu Luo (MS 2004, CS&E, now with Nationwideauction)

Contact

Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Engineering Building II
University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA

Office: Engineering Building II room 317
Phone: (951) 827-2203
Fax: (951) 827-4643
Email: stelo@cs.ucr.edu

http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~stelo/