Usman Roshan
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Ph.D. Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin
Member of CIPRES

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Research Interests

• Bioinformatics: phylogeny reconstruction, multiple sequence alignment, bioinformatics of disease
• Machine learning: discriminative methods

Publications

Software and data

• Disease associated SNP and loci selection by support vector machines
• Identifying distantly related RNAs in genomic sequences
• eProbalign: web server and source code for probalign multiple sequence alignment program
• Recursive-Iterative-DCM3: divide-and-conquer booster for large-scale phylogeny reconstruction
• Diametrical clustering for identifying anti-correlated gene clusters

Teaching

• BNFO 602: Foundations of Bioinformatics II, Spring 09

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Contact

Department of Computer Science
New Jersey Institute of Technology
GITC 4400, University Heights
Newark, NJ 07102
(973)-596-2872 (office)
(973)-596-5777 (fax) 
usman@cs.njit.edu