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Carl Kingsford

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
UM Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
and Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2005 (advisor: Mona Singh)
MA, Princeton University, 2002
BS, Duke University, 2000

Contact Information

carlk [at] umiacs.umd.edu

Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Biomolecular Sciences Bldg #296
College Park, MD 20742
301-405-7395

Open Positions (March 2012)

Current Research Interests

We are interested in designing graph and optimization algorithms to extract insight from biological data. In particular, we focus on the following classes of problems:

Transcription termination Protein structure prediction Sequence motif discovery Influenza evolution Protein interaction networks Partial research schematic

Software

Many of the papers listed below contain links to websites that offer the software used in the experiments described in the paper. Here are some additional software packages:

Teaching

A collection of bioinformatics lectures and computer science background lectures can be found here.

Group Members

Current:

Former Students:

Selected Publications

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* indicates that the authors are alphabetized.
† indicates equal contribution.

Biological Network Analysis

Bacterial (and Other) Genomics

Influenza Evolution

Protein Structure (generally older work)

Other Papers

Awards

2008 - Named one of 30 “Tomorrow's PIs” by Genome Technology Magazine
2010 - UMD Department of Computer Science "Teaching Excellence Award for a Professor"
2011 - NSF CAREER Award
2012 - Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow