Team Members

Team Leader
Anne Condon (Computer Science, UBC)
Design and analysis of algorithms, biomolecular computation, RNA secondary structure prediction
Awards:
    Peter Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence (2006)
    NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering, B.C. and the Yukon (2004-2009)
    Distinguished Alumna Award, University College Cork, Ireland (2001)
    NSF National Young Investigator Award (1992)
    ACM Distinguished Dissertation Award (1988)

Core Investigators
Holger H. Hoos (Computer Science, UBC)
Combinatorial problem solving, stochastic search algorithms, computational biology
Awards:
    3 First, 1 Second and 1 Third Prize in 5 of 9 categories of the 2007 SAT Solvers Competition for SAT solver SATzilla
    First prize in the QF_BV category of the 2007 Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) Competition
    Best Paper Award, 19th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence
    First prize in the SAT 2004 SAT Solvers Competition (random category)
    Best Paper Award, ANTS 2002 - 3rd International Workshop on Ant Algorithms
    Early Career UBC Scholarship, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (2001--2002)
    Best Dissertation Award of the German Informatics Society (1999)

Ming Li  ( School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo)
Bioinformatics
Awards:
    Best Paper Award. Life Sciences Society, CSB (2007)
    Royal Society of Canada Fellow (2006)
    Killam Fellowship (2001)
    Steacie Fellowship (1996)
    Canada Research Chair, Tier I (2002)

Irmtraud Meyer (Department of Computer Science, UBC)
Bioinformatics
Awards:
    PLoS Computational Biology, SimulFold paper features as editor's pick (2007)
    Marie-Curie Guest Fellow, Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary (2007)
    BMC Bioinformatics, paper on co-transcriptional folding features as special highlight (2004)
    Wellcome Trust Prize Studentship of the Wellcome Trust, London, UK (2000-2002)
    External Research Studentship of Trinity College, Cambridge, UK (1999-2002)
    Honorary Scholarship of the Cambridge European Trust, Cambridge, UK (1999-2002)

S. Cenk Sahinalp (School of Computer Science, Simon Fraser University)
Algorithms, computational genomics
Awards:
    co-Principal Investigator: SFU-CTEF grant on bioinformatics for combatting infectious diseases
    Michael Smith Foundation For Health Research Career Award (2006-2012)
    NSF Career Award in theory of computing (2002)
    Canada Research Chair (2003)
    ASI Fellowship (2003)

Ladislav Stacho (Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University)
Graph theory, combinatorial algorithms, computational genomics
Awards:
    Schvarz Prize awarded by Society of Slovak Mathematicians and Physicists (1998)

Peter Unrau (Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University)
Bioinformatics, Ribozyme chemistry
Awards:
    MSFHR Scholar
    CIHR New Investigator

Kaizhong Zhang (Department of Computer Science, U. Western Ontario)
RNA structure alignment, RNA structure inference and RNA gene searching, tree comparison algorithms, and protein mass spectrometry data analysis.
Awards:
    Sharcnet Research Fellowship (2002)