Andrei PAUN, PhD
Andrei PAUN, PhD
Associate Professor, Computer Science and
Institute for Micromanufacturing,
Eva J. Cunningham Professor (Louisiana Board of Regents Support Fund)
P.O. box 10137,
Ruston, LA, 71272
Address for Fedex/UPS deliveries:
911 Hergot Avenue, Louisiana Tech University,
Ruston, LA 71272.
Phone: 318-257-5135
Fax: 318-257-5104
e-mail:
@latech.edu
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Education
Postdoctoral fellow: Rovira i Virgili University, Spain, 5/2003-9/2003, field: Computer Science
Ph.D.: University of Western Ontario, Canada, 9/1999-5/2003, field of study: Computer Science
Dissertation: “Unconventional models of computation: DNA and membrane computing”,
supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sheng Yu
M.Sc.: University of Western Ontario, Canada, 9/1998-8/1999, field of study: Computer Science
B.Sc.: University of Bucharest, Romania, 10/1994-6/1998, field of study: Mathematics and Computer Science
Research
My research interests lie in the area of bioinformatics, in particular, in the theoretical study of membrane computing and DNA computing. I have more than 70 publications in these branches of bioinformatics in international journals (such as New Generation Computing, Fundamenta Informaticae, International Journal of Computer Science, etc.) and in proceedings of international conferences (International Meeting on DNA Based Computation: 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, etc.). As a secondary research interest, it is worth mentioning my work in the area of Deterministic Cover Automata leading to several algorithms for DFCA. I am now working towards “merging” these research interests together: using my expertise in bioinformatics and apply my algorithms and ideas from the area of finite automata to solve problems in bioinformatics.
• Hirsh index: 9 according to Thomson ISI database; highest cited paper: 110 citations, total citations in the ISI database: 306.
• The paper “The Power of Communication: P Systems with Symport/Antiport, NGC, 2002” has been selected by the Thomson ISI Essential Science Indicators as a highly influential/cited paper and it is ranked in the top 1% within the field. The exact phrase on the certificate received from ISI reads: “This means that the number of citations your article received places it in the top 1% within its field according to Essential Science Indicators. Your work is highly influential, and is making a significant impact among your colleagues in your field of study.”
Grants obtained:
Teaching at Louisiana Tech University
Service (only college or university level committees listed)
University Senate, Louisiana Tech University, (2005 – 2008, 2010-2012)
Engineering Science Team, College of Engineering and Science, Louisiana Tech University (2005 – 2006)
Ethics and Professionalism Committee, College of Engineering and Science, Louisiana Tech University (2004 – 2005)
Graduate Recruitment Team, College of Engineering and Science, Louisiana Tech Univ. (2004 – 2006)
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Reviewer
• NSF panel member for a cluster in Computational Biology: April 2006.
Journals:
• Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems
• Information Processing Letters
• International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science
• Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics
• Theoretical Computer Science
Conferences:
• WIA’98, WIA’99; CIAA’2000, CIAA’2001, CIAA’2002; DNA 7, DNA 8; FCT’99; DCAGRS’99, DCAGRS’2000, CIAA2004, DLT2004, CIAA2005, DLT2005, CIAA2006, DLT2006, DCFS2006, DNA2007, CIAA2007, DLT2007, LTB07, CIAA2008, DLT2008, FICCC08, etc.
Program Committee Membership:
• Program Committee member for
Sixteenth International Meeting on DNA Computing (DNA 16), Hong
Kong, China, June 14-17, 2010
• Program Committee member for
Fifteenth
International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata
(CIAA2010) (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, August 12-15, 2010)
• Program Committee member for the
6th International
Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA'10),
May 23-26, 2010 at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT.
• Program Committee member for Fifteenth
International Meeting on DNA Computing (DNA 15), Fayetteville,
Arkansas, USA, 2009
• Program Committee member for
Thirteenth International Conference on Implementation and Application
of Automata (CIAA2008) (Santa Barbara, 2008)
• Publicity Committee Co-Chair for
Thirteenth International Conference on Implementation and Application
of Automata (CIAA2008) (Santa Barbara, 2008)
• Program Committee member for
Third International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and
Applications (BIC-TA 2008) Adelaide, Australia, 2008.
• Program Committee member for
First
International Conference on Contemporary Computing (NOIDA,
(outskirts of New Delhi), India 2008)
• Program Committee member for
Language Theory in
Biocomputing 07 (Kingston, Canada 2007)
• Program Committee member for Thirteenth International Meeting DNA Computing (DNA13) (Memphis, USA, 2007)
• Program Committee member for Eleventh International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata (CIAA06) (Taipei, Taiwan 2006).
• Student committee chair and organizer of UWORCS2002: U.W.O. Research in Computer Science, (London, Canada, 2002).
• Organizing committee member for Fifth International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata (CIAA 2000) and Half Century of Automata Theory Celebration and Inspiration (HCAT), London, Ontario, Canada, 2000.
Student Supervision:
Garrett R. Delancy in progress working on simulation of cells and bioinformatics tools for genome manipulation.
John Jack (Ph.D.) graduated in May 2009, dissertation title: “Discrete Nondeterministic Modeling of Biochemical Networks”now with EPA.
Shenghua Ni (Ph.D.) graduated in March 2010, dissertation title: “DNA microarray image segmentation using Active Contours Without Edges method” now with Vanderbilt University.
Bianca Popa (Ph.D.) graduated Nov. 2006, dissertation title: “Membrane systems with limited parallelism” now with Softwin.ro
Amit Tyagi (Ms.C) graduated December 2008, "An incremental multi-word algorithm for DFCA"
Hitesh Harish Nagda (Ms.C) graduated February 2007, "Computability of systems based on flip-flopping proteins"
Udayendru Gottapu (Ms.C) graduated November 2006, practicum project: “WebGrail+ 1.0”
Suman Kalavagunta (Ms.C) graduated October 2006, thesis title: “Incremental construction of finite automata and parallel minimization of DFA”
Lalitha Krothapalli (Ms.C) graduated October 2006, practicum project: “Graphical display of finite state machines”
Nithila Govindaraju (Ms.C) graduated September 2006, practicum project: “Parallelization of E-cell system”
Jason R. Smith (Ms.C) graduated August 2006, thesis title: “Development of operations on cover automata”
Vishnu C. Nara (Ms.C) graduated August 2006, practicum project: “GUI for GRAIL+ project”
Chandra Sankaranarayanan (Ms.C) graduated May 2006, practicum project: “MPI parallelization of E-cell”
Nishanth Tiruvaipati (Ms.C) graduated February 2006, practicum project: “E-Cell online: web-based simulation of cells”
Smitha Cheruku (Ms.C) graduated February 2006, thesis title: “A new simulation framework for modeling signaling transduction pathways: P systems”
Sridhar Bheemanathini (Ms.C Biomedical Engineering, co-supervised with Dr. Steven Jones) graduated October 2005, thesis title: “Regulation and control of 2,3-BPG metabolism in human erythrocyte using E-Cell system”
Pradeep Daripally (Ms.C Electrical Engineering, co-supervised with Dr. Rob Szlavik) graduated October. 2005, practicum project: “VHDL simulation of symport/antiport P systems”
Le Zhang (Ms.C) graduated May 2005, thesis title: “NFA to DFCA transformations and implementation issues”
Vijay Sundaram (Ms.C) graduated May 2005, practicum project: “Porting and modernizing the GRAIL+ package”
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