SING-HOI SZE

Associate Professor

Email: shsze@cs.tamu.edu
Phone: 979/845-5009 Fax: 979/847-8578
Office: HRBB 328B
http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/shsze

Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Southern California, 2000
M.S. Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University, 1995
B.S. Computer Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Bioinformatics/Computational Biology: multiple sequence alignment, motif finding with applications to predicting transcription factor binding sites, biological network analysis, identification of gene clusters within genomes

SELECTED RESEARCH SUPPORT

"Genetic and Functional Genomic Analysis of Early Events in Cotton Fiber Development," National Science Foundation, 9/1/2004-8/31/2009

"Exact Computational Biology Algorithms with Small Parameters," National Science Foundation, 9/1/2003-8/31/2006

AWARDS

Undergraduate Faculty Teaching Award: computer science department, 2006

EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University, 2002 - present

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California at San Diego, 2001-2002

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES

Program Committee Member: 2007 International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA'2007), 4th International Bioinformatics Workshop (IBW'2006)

Organizer: NSF Biotechnology Workshop for Middle School Students, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 2005

Panelist: Information Technology Research (ITR) medium-sized program, Theory of Computing program, National Science Foundation, 2003

Reviewer: Bioinformatics, Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Lu S., Zhang F., Chen J. and Sze S.-H., "Finding Pathway Structures in Protein Interaction Networks," Algorithmica, 48, 363-374, 2007.

Yang Q. and Sze S.-H., "Path Matching and Graph Matching in Biological Networks," Journal of Computational Biology, 14, 56-67, 2007.

Yi G., Sze S.-H. and Thon M.R., "Identifying Clusters of Functionally Related Genes in Genomes," Bioinformatics, 23, 1053-1060, 2007.

Chen J., Lu S., Sze S.-H. and Zhang F., "Improved Algorithms for Path, Matching, and Packing Problems," proceedings of the 18th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA'2007), 298-307, 2007.

Lu Y. and Sze S.-H., "Multiple Sequence Alignment Based on Profile Alignment of Intermediate Sequences," proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB'2007), Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, 4453, 283-295, 2007.