TIFFANI L. WILLIAMS

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.

"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

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)

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.