Stefano Lonardi, Professor and Associate Chair
Faculty member of the Graduate Program in Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics, the Center for Plant Cell Biology, the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, the Materials Science and Engineering program, and the Algorithms and Computational Biology Lab.
Research Interests
Computational Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Genomics, Epigenetics, Data Mining
Active Research Projects
NSF, PI, Improving de novo Genome Assembly using Optical Maps, 2018-21, project webpage
NSF, coPI, BREAD: Advancing the Cowpea Genome for Food Security, 2016-19
NSF, PI, Algorithms for Genome Assembly of Ultra-deep Sequencing Data, 2015-18, project webpage
US-AID, coPI, Feed the Future: Advanced Tools for Breeding Climate-Resilient Cowpeas, 2013-18
Awards and Honorary Memberships
ACM Distinguished Scientist, 2017
IEEE Fellow (Computer Society), 2016
Faculty of 1000 (Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics & Computational Biology), 2016
NSF CAREER, 2005
Program Committees
Past four years: ACM BCB'18 (Washington, DC), ISMB'18 (Chicago, IL), ACM BCB'17 (Area Chair, Boston, MA), SPIRE'17 (Palermo, Italy), WABI'17 (Boston, MA), ACM BCB'16 (Seattle, WA), WABI'16 (Aarhus, Denmark), RECOMB-SEQ'16 (Santa Monica, CA), ISMB'16 (Area Chair) (Orlando, FL), BIBM'15 (Washington, DC), WABI'15 (Atlanta, GA), ACM BCB'15 (Atlanta, GA), ISMB/ECCB 2015 (Dublin, Ireland), CPM'15 (Ischia, Italy), RECOMB'15 (Warsaw, Poland), RECOMB-SEQ'15 (Warsaw, Poland), RECOMB'14-CG (New York, NY), ACM BCB'14 (Newport Beach, CA), WABI'14 (Wroclaw, Poland), ISMB'14 (Boston, MA), RECOMB'14 (Pittsburgh, PA), CPM'14 (Moscow, Russia), SPIRE'13 (Jerusalem), WABI'13 (Sophia Antipolis, France), ICCABS'13 (New Orleans, LA), ISMB/ECCB'13 (Berlin, Germany), RECOMB'13 (Beijing, China), APCB'13 (Vancouver BC, Canada),
Current Students
Weihua Pan (PhD candidate, CS&E)
Md. Abid Hasan (PhD candidate, CS&E)
Abbas Roayaei (PhD candidate, CS&E)
Qihua Liang (PhD candidate, GGB)
Dipankar Ranjan Baisya (PhD student, CS&E)
PhD Alumni
Hind Alhakami (PhD 2017, CS&E, Bioinformatics Scientist at Dovetail Genomics)
Rachid Ounit (PhD 2017, CS&E, CTO at Biotia)
Seyed Hamid Mirebrahim (PhD 2015, Principal Scientist at Roche Sequencing)
Anton Polishko (PhD 2014, CS&E, CTO at Digibuild Software)
Denise Duma (PhD 2013, CS&E, post-doc at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York)
Elena Harris (PhD 2010, CS&E, Assistant Professor at Cal State, Chico)
Serdar Bozdag (PhD 2008, CS&E, Assistant Professor at Marquette University)
Vladimir Vacic (PhD 2008, CS&E, Bioinformatics Scientist at 23andme)
Yonghui Wu (PhD 2008, CS&E, with Principal Software Engineer at Google Brain)
Jie Zheng (PhD 2006, CS&E, Assistant Professor at Nanyang Tech Univ, Singapore)
Qiaofeng Yang (PhD 2006, GGB, with Bloomberg)
MS/BS Alumni
Sara Nasseri (MS 2014, CS&E, with Western Digital)
Matthew Alpert (BS 2013, CS&E, with Turtle Rock Studios)
Mo Cao (MS 2012, CS&E, with Xangati)
Burair Alsaihati (MS 2011, CS&E, PhD student at University of Georgia and JCGR, KACST)
Neeti Pokhriyal (MS 2009, CS&E, PhD student at University at Buffalo)
Vi Pham (MS 2006, CS&E)
San Nguyen (MS 2006, CS&E, with Raytheon)
George Hsu (MS 2005, CS&E, with NYU)
Hongwei Ji (MS 2004, CS&E, with EBSCO Publishing)
Yu Luo (MS 2004, CS&E, with Glidewell Lab, Irvine)
Visitors
Matthew Goldberg (BS 2015, CS&E UCLA, with UMD)
Alberto Castellini (Visiting Scholar, CS&E, with Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology)
Davide Verzotto (Visiting Scholar, CS&E, with Genome Institute of Singapore)