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Research Areas and Short Biography Jason T. L. Wang received a B.S. in mathematics from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University in 1991. He is Professor of Computer Science and Bioinformatics at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), New Jersey's Science and Technology University, and Director of the University's Data and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory. Dr. Wang's research interests include data mining, databases, bioinformatics, computational genomics, computational proteomics, software development, cyberinfrastructure, digital libraries, and integration informatics (data, tool, application and information integration). He has published over 120 refereed papers and presented 3 SIGMOD software demos in these areas. His papers appeared in computer science journals such as ACM Transactions on Database Systems, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, in bioinformatics journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Protein Engineering, BMC Genomics, Journal of Computational Biology, Computational Biology and Chemistry, Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, BMC Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Bioinformatics, and his conference papers appeared in proceedings of ACM SIGMOD, ACM SIGKDD, ACM PODS, VLDB, IEEE ICDE, IEEE ICDM, SIAM SDM, etc. His research has been supported by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, AT&T Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, James S. McDonnell Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), and U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). He has served as panelist and reviewer for the NSF, NIH, U.S. Department of Energy (DoE), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Science Council of Taiwan, Agency for Science, Research & Technology (A*STAR) of Singapore, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation), Austrian Science Fund, and Council of Physical Sciences of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Professor Wang cowrote the book Mining the World Wide Web: An Information Search Approach (2001, Kluwer Academic), which was translated to Japanese in 2004, and is an editor and author of five books Pattern Discovery in Biomolecular Data: Tools, Techniques and Applications (1999, Oxford University Press), Computational Biology and Genome Informatics (2003, World Scientific), Data Mining in Bioinformatics (2005, Springer), Analysis of Biological Data: A Soft Computing Approach (2007, World Scientific), and Computational Intelligence and Pattern Analysis in Biological Informatics (2010, Wiley). He is the executive editor of World Scientific Book Series on Science, Engineering, and Biology Informatics (SEBI). He serves or has served on the Editorial Boards of 15 journals including International Journal of Computational Bioscience (ACTA Press, Canada), International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (Inderscience, Switzerland), International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (Inderscience, Switzerland), International Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (Inderscience, Switzerland), International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design (Inderscience, Switzerland), International Journal of Bio-Science and Bio-Technology (SERSC, Korea), International Journal of Soft Computing and Bioinformatics (Serials Publications, India), Information Systems (Elsevier), Knowledge and Information Systems (Springer), International Journal of Information Quality (Inderscience, Switzerland), Intelligent Data Analysis (IOS Press, Amsterdam), The Open Software Engineering Journal (Bentham Science Publishers), The Open Cybernetics and Systemics Journal (Bentham Science Publishers), Pattern Recognition (2002-2006) and Information Sciences (2002-2003). In addition, he has served on the program committees of over 100 national and international conferences, is Program Co-Chair of the 2001 Atlantic Symposium on Computational Biology, Genome Information Systems & Technology held at Duke University, Program Co-Chair of the 1998 IEEE International Joint Symposia on Intelligence and Systems held at Rockville, Maryland, a Founding Chair of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics, a Workshop Co-Chair of the 2010 ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and a Co-Chair of the 2006 IEEE ICDM Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics, and the 2011 IEEE ICDM Workshop on Biological Data Mining and its Applications in Healthcare. He is listed in Who's Who among Asian Americans, and Who's Who in Science and Engineering.

Research Web Sites The RNA Cyber Infrastructure (RNAcyber) contains BlockMatch GLEAN-UTR DB Junction-Explorer RADAR RmotifDB RSfold RSpredict Professor Wang's software library can be found at: http://datalab.njit.edu/software Professor Wang's current research project RNAminer can be found at: http://web.njit.edu/~wangj/rnaminer.html Professor Wang's previous research project ASES can be found at: http://www.cis.njit.edu/~jason/sigmod.html

Research Systems Dr. Wang has developed several research systems that perform the following functions: detecting the similarity of data where the data include strings, trees, graphs, labeled points in high-dimensional space and attribute-values, and the similarity is measured by a user-defined metric; finding association rules in transaction databases; knowledge discovery and clustering in engineering databases; aligning sequence and structural data in biological databases; classification in DNA and protein databases.

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