Christopher M. Taylor

Christopher M. Taylor Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science University of New Orleans, Lakefront 2000 LAKESHORE DR NEW ORLEANS, LA 70148 CERM 217 (Office Location) 504.280.2402 (Office Phone) 504.280.7228 (Fax) taylor at cs.uno.edu	Research Institute for Children Children's Hospital 200 HENRY CLAY AVE NEW ORLEANS, LA 70118 R&E 3211 (Office Location) 504.896.2184 (Office Phone) 504.894.5379 (Fax) ctaylor at chnola-research.org

Courses

Research

Courses

Spring 2009: CSCI 4401 - Principles of Operating Systems I
Fall 2008: CSCI 4401 - Principles of Operating Systems I
Spring 2003: CS/APMA 202 - Discrete Mathematics I
Fall 2002: CS/APMA 202 - Discrete Mathematics I

My current research is in the field of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. My group develops algorithms and techniques to analyze genomic data with a focus on DNA replication, new sequencing technologies, and developmental cancer. We collaborate directly with molecular biologists to solve real biological problems using genomic tools such as DNA microarrays and high-throughput sequencing systems. Prior to this work I have also done research in discrete data mining techniques and lighting models for computer graphics. I am currently interested in exploring the application of GPUs to accelerate mapping of reads from high-throughput sequencing runs to a reference genome. I am also interested in applying this technology to explore the human microbiome in greater detail, and developing algorithms to identify and classify the diverse constituents present.

Biography

Dr. Christopher Taylor joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Orleans (UNO) as an assistant professor in August 2008. He holds a joint faculty appointment with the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI), providing him with access to significant computational resources and infrastructure for his research activities. He is also affiliated with the Research Institute for Children (RIC), part of the Children's Hospital of New Orleans where his research activities are supported. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Virginia. He graduated with honors from Mary Washington College (now known as University of Mary Washington) with a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics.

Publications

Invited Book Chapters:

Neerja Karnani, Christopher M. Taylor and Anindya Dutta. Microarray Analysis of DNA Replication Timing. In Microarray Analysis of the Physical Genome. Methods in Molecular Biology. 2009 Jul 27;556:191-203. ISBN: 978-1-60327-191-2, Humana Press.

Refereed Journal Articles:

Encode Project Consortium. Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project. Nature. 2007 Jun 14;447(7146):799-816.
Neerja Karnani, Christopher Taylor, Ankit Malhotra and Anindya Dutta. Pan-S replication patterns and chromosomal domains defined by genome-tiling arrays of ENCODE genomic areas. Genome Research. 2007 Jun;17(6):865-76.
Encode Project Consortium. The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) Project. Science. 2004 Oct 22;306(5696):636-40.

Refereed Conference Papers:

Anindya Dutta, Neerja Karnani, Ankit Malhotra, Gabriel Robins and Christopher M. Taylor. Extraction of Human DNA Replication Timing Patterns from Discrete Microarray Data. Third IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB 2008), Novotel St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia, October 2008.
John L. Pfaltz and Christopher M. Taylor. Closed Set Mining of Biological Data. Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics at 8th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Edmonton, Alberta, July 2002.
John L. Pfaltz and Christopher M. Taylor. Scientific Discovery through Iterative Transformations of Concept Lattices. Workshop on Discrete Mathematics and Data Mining at 2nd SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Arlington, VA, April 2002.

Patents:

John L. Pfaltz, Christopher M. Taylor, Robert Jamison and University of Virginia. An Incremental Process for Extracting Logical Implications from Relational Data based on the Generators and Faces of Closed Sets. UVa Patent Foundation. 2002.

Technical Reports:

Darren T. Drewry, Lin Gu, A. Benjamin Hocking, Kyoung-Don Kang, Robert C. Schutt, III, Christopher M. Taylor, John L. Pfaltz. Current State of Data Mining. University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science, 2002.

Personal

I enjoy teaching, advising, solving problems, and writing code which is why I've chosen an academic position over several opportunities to work in industry. The biotechnology sector is at a very exciting stage of development and I look forward to forging collaborations with some of the companies which are currently pushing the envelope of personal health care diagnostics and new sequencing technologies. Outside of work, I enjoy playing a variety of sports including basketball, tennis, baseball, hockey, football, and golf. I also enjoy weight training, hiking, and rafting. Poker, strategic board games, and guitar are some of my less physical hobbies. I grew up in Virginia and have always had an affinity for trucks, football, warm weather, and, yes, even humidity. Louisiana sounds like home to me.