Andrei PAUN, PhD
Andrei PAUN, PhD
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and
Institute for Micromanufacturing,
P.O. box 10137,
Ruston, LA, 71272
Address for Fedex/UPS deliveries:
NH-119, COES, Louisiana Tech University,
600 W. Arizona Avenue, 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 published more than forty papers 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.
Grants obtained:
Teaching at Louisiana Tech University
Service (only college or university level committees listed)
University Senate, Louisiana Tech University, (2005 – 2008)
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)
I am administering the MSDNAA subscription for the Computer Science program at Tech.
Reviewer
• NSF panel member for a cluster in Computational Biology: April 2006.
Journals:
• 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, etc.
Program Committee Membership:
• 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:
John Jack (Ph.D.) in progress, working on discrete simulation of signaling pathways
Shenghua Ni (Ph.D.) in progress, working on extensions for OO languages by considering states for objects.
Bianca Popa (Ph.D.) graduated Nov. 2006, dissertation title: “Membrane systems with limited parallelism”
Hitesh Harish Nagda (Ms.C) in progress, working on computability of systems based on flip-flopping proteins
Gopalakrishnan Kaveseri (Ms.C) in progress, working on Open-MP parallelization of E-cell
Amit Tyagi (Ms.C) in progress, working on cover automata and extensions for DFA
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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