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, Algorithms for Genome Assembly of Ultra-deep Sequencing Data, 2015-18, project webpage
UCR seed grant, coPI, An in vivo System to Monitor the 4D Mammalian Nucleome, 2015-16
NSF, PI, Algorithms and Software Tools for Epigenetic Research, 2013-2017, project webpage
US-AID, coPI, Feed the Future: Advanced Tools for Breeding Climate-Resilient Cowpeas, 2013-18
NSF, coPI, Acquisition of a Big Data Compute Cluster for Interdisciplinary Research, 2014-16
Awards
NSF Career, 2005
Program Committees
Past four years: 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), ISMB'12 (Long Beach, CA), ICCABS'12 (Las Vegas, NV), SDM'12 (Anaheim, CA), Bioinformatics'12 (Vilamoura, Portugal), WABI'11 (Saarbruken, Germany), KDD'11 (San Diego, CA), ISMB/ECCB 2011 (Vienna, Austria), FAW'11 (Jinhua, China), CPM'11 (Palermo, Italy), ICCABS'11 (Orlando, FL),
Current Students
Rachid Ounit (PhD candidate, CS&E)
Hind Alhakami (PhD candidate, CS&E)
Weihua Pan (PhD student, CS&E)
Md. Abid Hasan (PhD student, CS&E)
Abbas Roayaei (PhD student, CS&E)
Qihua Liang (PhD student, GGB)
Feroz Abdul-Kadar (MS student, CS&E)
Alan Venegas (BS student, CS&E)
PhD Alumni
Seyed Hamid Mirebrahim (PhD 2015, Principal Scientist at Roche Sequencing)
Anton Polishko (PhD 2014, CS&E, Entrepreneur)
Denise Duma (PhD 2013, CS&E, with Baylor College of Medicine)
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 Google)
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)
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)