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TIFFANI L. WILLIAMS

Associate Professor

Email: tlw@cse.tamu.edu
Phone: 979-845-7977
Office: HRBB 328C
http://faculty.cse.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.

"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

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2011-present
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2005-2011
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

Seung-Jin Sul, Suzanne Matthews, and Tiffani L. Williams. “Using Tree Diversity to Compare Phylogenetic Heuristics,” BMC Bioinformatics, to appear. (special issue on the best papers from BIBM’08).

Seung-Jin Sul and Tiffani L. Williams, “An Experimental Analysis of Consensus Tree Algorithms for Large-Scale Tree Collections,” 5th Intl. Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA’09).

Hyun-Jung Park and Tiffani L. Williams, “A Fitness Distance Correlation Measure for Evolutionary Trees,” 1st Intl. Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BiCoB’09).

Seung-Jin Sul, Suzanne Matthews, and Tiffani L. Williams, “New Approaches to Compare Phylogenetic Search Heuristics”, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM’08).



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