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).
