Ling Zhong PhD student in Computer Science Department at New Jersey Institute of Technology Advisor: Dr. Usman Roshan Contact Email: lz25@njit.edu Publication Ling Zhong and Usman Roshan: Fast GPU-based Anchor Selection for Pairwise Whole Genome Alignment Using the Maximum Scoring Subsequence, under preparation. Ling Zhong, Junilda Spirollari, Jason T. L. Wang and Dongrong Wen, ''RNA Classification and Structure Prediction: Algorithms and Case Studies,'' Biological Knowledge Discovery Handbook: Preprocessing, Mining and Postprocessing of Biological Data, (eds. Mourad Elloumi and Albert Y. Zomaya), Chapter 31, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014, pp. 685-702. Ling Zhong, Jason T. L. Wang, Dongrong Wen, Virginie Aris, Patricia Soteropoulos, and Bruce A. Shapiro: Effective Classification of MicroRNA Precursors Using Feature Mining and AdaBoost Algorithms, OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology. 2013 Sep;17(9):486-493. Website for MirID Ling Zhong, Jason T. L. Wang, Dongrong Wen, and Bruce A. Shapiro: Pre-miRNA Classification via Combinatorial Feature Mining and Boosting, BIBM: The IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine), page 1-4. IEEE Computer Society, (2012). Michael Bao, Miguel Cervantes-Cervantes, Ling Zhong and Jason T. L. Wang: Searching for Non-coding RNAs in Genomic Sequences Using ncRNAscout, Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2012, pp. 114-121.