Bio sketch
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Tao Jiang received B.S. in Computer Science and Technology from the 
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, in July 1984 
and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Minnesota in Nov. 1988. 
He was a faculty member at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, 
Canada during Jan. 1989 - July 2001 and is now Distinguished Professor 
of Computer Science and Engineering at University of California - Riverside 
(UCR). He is also a member of the UCR Institute for Integrative Genome 
Biology, a member of the Center for Plant Cell Biology, a principal scientist
at Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology, and Distinguished Visiting
Professor at Tsinghua University. Tao Jiang's recent research interest
includes combinatorial algorithms, computational molecular biology, 
bioinformatics, and computational aspects of information retrieval. 
He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and 
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and
held a Presidential Chair Professor position at UCR during 2007-2010.
He has published over 300 papers in computer science and bioinformatics
journals and conferences, and won several best paper awards. More 
information about his work can be found at http://www1.cs.ucr.edu/~jiang