Assistant Professor
Email: tlw@cs.tamu.edu
Phone: 979-845-7977
Office: HRBB 328C
http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/tlw
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Central Florida, 2000
B.S. Computer Science, Marquette University, 1994
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Bionformatics/Computational biology,
phylogeny, high-performance
computing, optimization, performance
analysis
SELECTED RESEARCH SUPPORT
- "ATOL Collaborative Research: Resolving Mammalian Phylogeny with Genomic and Morphological
Approaches," National Science Foundation, 10/1/2006-9/30/2011.
- "Computer Science Study Panel (CS2P)," The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, 3/27/06-3/26/07.
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- "Building the Tree of Life A National Resource for Phyloinformatics and Computational Phylogenetics," National Science Foundation (ITR Program), 10/1/03-9/30/08.
- "Alfred P. Sloan Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Molecular Biology," Sloan Foundation and The Department of Energy, 8/1/02-7/31/04.
AWARDS
- DARPA CS2P participant, 2006
- Radcliffe Institute Fellow, 2004-2005
- Alfred P. Sloan Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Biology, 2002-2004
- McKnight Doctoral Fellowship, 1994-1999
EXPERIENCE
- Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2005 - present
- Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2004-2005
- Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of New Mexico, 2001-2004
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES
Program Committees
- Chinese-American Beckman Frontiers of Science Symposium, sponsored by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Sciences (2004, 2005)
- Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (2002, 2004)
- Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB 2005)
- High Performance Computing in Medicine and Biology (HiPCoMB 2005)
- Workshop on Parallel BioComputing (PBC 2005)
Reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), The IEEE and ACM Supercomputing Conference (SC)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
S. Sul and T.L. Williams, "A Randomized
Algorithm for Comparing
Sets of Phylogenetic Trees,"
Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference
(APBC '07), pp. 121-130, 2007.
T.L. Williams and M.L. Smith, "The
Role of Diverse Populations in Phylogenetic
Analysis," The Genetic and
Evolutionary Computation Conference
(GECCO '06), pp. 287-294, 2006.
T.L. Williams, D.A. Bader, B.M.E
Moret, and M. Yan, "High-performance
phylogeny reconstruction
under maximum parsimony," Parallel
Computing for Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology, A.Y. Zomaya,
ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
U. Roshan, B.M.E. Moret, T.L. Williams,
and T. Warnow, "Rec-I-DCM3:
A Fast Algorithmic Technique for
Reconstructing Large Phylogenetic
Trees," 3rd IEEE Computational Systems
Bioinformatics Conf. CSB 2004,
pp. 98-109, IEEE Press.