Biography

John Kececioglu is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and the BIO5 Institute at the University of Arizona, which he joined in 2000. John did his PhD with Gene Myers, and his postdoctoral study with David Sankoff and Dan Gusfield.

His research is in applied algorithms, especially for areas of computational biology and bioinformatics such as

• multiple alignment,
• sequence comparison,
• sequence assembly, and
• genome rearrangement.

• Opal, a tool for multiple sequence alignment,
• Ipa, a tool for inverse sequence alignment, and
• AlignAlign, a tool for optimally aligning alignments.

John is a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, serves on the Editorial Board of Algorithms for Molecular Biology, and has served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik.

John is Conference Chair for RECOMB 2009, which will be held in Tucson, Arizona.