Zhiyu Zhao, Ph.D.

LONI Institute Computational Scientist	Office: Math 321
Department Of Computer Science	Phone: (504)280-7076
College of Sciences	Department Email: sylvia@cs.uno.edu
University Of New Orleans	UNO Email: zzhao5@uno.edu

My CV Research Interests Recent Projects Publications Teaching Presentations

Research Interests Back to top

Bioinformatics algorithms (Protein Structure Comparison, Genome sequence Comparison, Haplotype Reconstruction, Gene Expression Data Analysis)

Parallel and distributed algorithms

Content Based Information Retrieving

Recent Projects Back to top

An Efficient Algorithm and Web Tool (http://fpsa.cs.uno.edu) for Pairwise Protein 3D Structure Alignment (mirror website (http://fpsa.cs.panam.edu/PSA/) at UTPA)

An Efficient Algorithm and Web Tool (http://fpsa.cs.panam.edu/PSQ/) for Structure Query in the Protein Data Bank

A Fast and Accurate Algorithm for the Haplotype Reconstruction Problem (Web Demo: http://fpsa.cs.uno.edu/haprec/haprec.html)

Publications Back to top

1. Zaixin Lu, Zhiyu Zhao, Sergio Garcia, Krishnakumar Krishnaswamy, and Bin Fu, “Search Similar Protein Structures with Classification, Sequence and 3-D Alignments”, to appear in the Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.

2. Huimin Chen and Zhiyu Zhao, “An Information Theoretic Viewpoint on Haplotype Reconstruction from SNP Fragments”, to appear in the 3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE 2009, China).

3. Zhiyu Zhao, Bin Fu, Francisco J. Alanis, and Christopher M. Summa, “Feedback Algorithm and Web-Server for Protein Structure Alignment”, Journal of Computational Biology, 15(5):505 - 524, June 2008. A compact version was in the Proceedings of the 7th Annual International Conference on Computational Systems Bioinformatics (LSS CSB'08, USA).

4. Zhixiang Chen, Bin Fu, Robert Schweller, Boting Yang, Zhiyu Zhao and Binhai Zhu, “ Linear Time Probabilistic Algorithms for the Singular Haplotype Reconstruction Problem from SNP Fragments”, Journal of Computational Biology, 15(5):535 - 546, June 2008. A preliminary version was in the Proceedings of the Sixth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC'08, Japan), pp. 333-342.

5. Bin Fu and Zhiyu Zhao, “Separating Sublinear Time Computations by Approximate Diameter”, to appear in the Journal of Combinatorial Optimization. A preliminary version was in the Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications (COCOA'08, Canada), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5165, Springer, pp. 79-88.

6. Zaixin Lu, Zhiyu Zhao, Sergio Garcia, and Bin Fu, “New algorithm and web server for finding proteins with similar 3d structures”, in the Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'08, USA), pp. 674-680.

7. Zhixiang Chen, Bin Fu, Jinhui Xu, Boting Yang, Zhiyu Zhao and Binhai Zhu, “Non-breaking Similarity of Genomes with Gene Repetitions”, in the Proceedings of the 18th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM’07, Canada), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4580, Springer, pp. 119-130.

8. Zhiyu Zhao and Bin Fu, “A Flexible Algorithm for Pairwise Protein Structure Alignment”, in the Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP’07, USA), pp. 16-22.

9. Diego Liberati, Sergio Bittanti, Simone Garatti, Zhiyu Zhao and Marco Pappalettera, “Classification of Leukemia Patients via Micro-array Data Analysis”, in the Proceedings of the National Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems (BIOSYS 2005, June 2005, Italy).

10. Zhiyu Zhao, Fei Wu, Shengsheng Yu and Jingli Zhou, “A Lookup Table Based Fast Algorithm for Finding Roots of Quadric or Cubic Polynomials in the GF (2^m)”, Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Nature Science Edition), 33(2): 70 – 72, April 2005.

11. Jingli Zhou, Zhiyu Zhao and Shengsheng Yu, “New FEC Strategies for Software ITU-T Multimedia Teleconferencing Systems”, in the Proceedings of the 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2003, July 2003, USA).

12. Zhiyu Zhao, Shengsheng Yu and Jingli Zhou, “Study and Implementation of Communication Control on ISDN Based Video Conferencing Systems", Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Nature Science Edition), 28(2): 23 – 25, February 2000.

13. Zhiyu Zhao, Shengsheng Yu and Jingli Zhou, “Design of Communication Control Subsystem of H.320 Video Conferencing System", in the Proceedings of the 8th National Conference on Multimedia Technologies (NCMT’99, China).