NSF ITR 0331453 (Large): Building the Tree of Life -- A National
Resource for Phyloinformatics and Computational Phylogenetics.
PI: Warnow, 2003-2010. Collaborative with 4 other institutions
(UCSD, UNM, Florida State University, and UC Berkeley). I was the
overall project director.
Total amount: $11.6 Million for the entire project.
See The CIPRES Project web page
for more information on this project.
NSF ITR BCS 0312830 (small):
Collaborative Research, Algorithms for Inferring Reticulate
Evolution in Historical Linguistics.
PI: Warnow, (with Donald Ringe, at the
University of Pennsylvania), 2003-2007.
Total amount: $344,517.
See our
Computational
Phylogenetics for Historical Linguistics web page.
NSF
ITR/AP 0121680 (medium):
Collaborative Research, Reconstructing Complex Evolutionary Histories.
PI: Warnow, 2001-2007.
Total amount: $1,707,458.
See
The Complex Evolution Project web page
for more information on this project.
NSF IGERT DGE 0114387: Computational Phylogenetics and Applications to Biology.
Pi: Hillis, Co-PIs Warnow, Jansen, and Gutell, 2001-2007.
Total amount: $2,741,575.
NSF DEB 0120709:
Comparative Chloroplast Genomics: Integrating Computational Methods,
Molecular Evolution, and Phylogeny.
PI: Robert Jansen, Co-PIs Warnow and Raubeson, 2001-2007.
Total amount: $1,350,000.
Academic Positions
1991-1992.
Postdoc in the Mathematics
Department at the University of Southern California.
1992-1993.
Postdoc at Sandia National Laboratories.
1993-1998.
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer
Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania
1998-1999.
Associate Professor (tenured) in the
Department of Computer Sciences at
the University of Pennsylvania.
1999-2003.
Associate Professor in
the Department of Computer Sciences
at the University of Texas at Austin.
2003-2012.
Professor in
the Department of Computer Sciences
at the University of Texas at Austin.
2012-2014.
David Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor of Computer Science
at the University of Texas at Austin.
2014-present.
Founder Professor of Bioengineering
and Computer Science, the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Visiting Positions
Research Associate, Yale University Department of Computer Science, 1997-1998
Visiting Professor, Princeton University Department of Computer Science,
1997-1998
Visiting Professor at the Computer Science Department at the University
of Arizona, 1998-1999
Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
University of Arizona, 1998-1999
Visiting Scholar, Department of Computer Science, University of California
at Berkeley, 2002-2004.
Visiting Researcher, The Program for Evolutionary Dynamics,
Harvard University, 2004-2006.
Invited Professor, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL),
Switzerland, Summer 2010.
Usman Roshan
(former PhD student, now an
Associate Professor in Computer Science
at the New Jersey Institute of Technology)
Katherine St John (former
postdoc, now Professor of Computer Science at Lehman College)
Michelle (Shel) Swenson, also my former
postdoctoral fellow, and now project manager for
Accelerating Grand Challenge Data-Intensive Problems
using Future Computing Platforms at USC.
Ann Taylor (former postdoc)
Li-San Wang (former
PhD student - now an Associate
Professor in the School of
Medicine, at
the University of Pennsylvania)
Shibu Yooseph (former PhD student, now Professor at
the J. Craig Venter Institute in San Diego)
Service
National Science Foundation, Program Director for BIGDATA,
CISE/IIS/III
Chair, BDMA (Biodata management and analysis)
study section, NIH, October 2010 until May 2012;
member of the study section for two years before then
Advisory Board, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational
Biology and Bioinformatics, 2006-2012
Advisory Board, Springer, Computational Biology Book
Series, 2005 - present.
Participant,
Institutes of Medicine Workshop on Interdisciplinary Programs and Academic Health Centers
on Tuesday, September 26th, 2006.
Member, Board of Directors, the International Society for
Computational Biology (ISCB), 2001-2004.
Committee member, National Academy of Sciences
Commmittee on Interdisciplinarity (2003-2004).
Committee member, National Research Council
Committee on Interdisciplinarity
(2003).
Committee member, National Academy of Sciences,
Committee for
Biological Cyberinfranstructure (BIOACCI).
(2003).
Co-chair, Organizing Committee for
the National Academy of Sciences, Japanese-American
Frontiers of Science, 2003.
Member, Board of Directors, International Society for Computational Biology,
2002-2005.
Editorial Board, ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics (to 2004),
and the Journal
of Graph Algorithms and Applications (current).
Co-chair, Comparative Genomics and Evolution, ISMB (Intelligent Systems for Molecular
Biology, 2006, 2007, and 2013.
Co-chair, Program Committee, COCOON (Combinatorics and Computing) 2003.
Co-chair, Program Committee, SODA (ACM/SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) 1999.
Co-chair, Workshop on Algorithms for Bioinformatics, 2009.
Program committee member:
ALENEX 2004,
COCOON 1998 and 2003;
FOCS 1996;
FUN 2001;
ICALP 2005;
ISMB 2006-2009;
JOBIM 2000;
SODA 2001;
WABI 2001, 2002, 2004, 2009, and 2010.
WADS 2001;
RECOMB 1997, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2009-2011;
and
STOC 1999.