Giuseppe Narzisi

PhD in Computer Science

NYU Bioinformatics Group
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University

Advisor: Prof. Bud Mishra

Contact

Address: 715 Broadway, 10th floor, Rm 1004, New York, NY 10003

Phone: +1 212.998.3128

E-mail: narzisi

nyu.edu

Fax: +1 212 998 3484

I have been awarded an IBM PhD Fellowship for the 2010-2011 academic year.

Research interests

My current research area is in Bioinformatics, specifically: DNA sequence assembly and Base-Calling from next generation sequencing reads. In particular I have focused my research on applying techniques and algorithms from Combinatorial Optimization (such as branch-and-bound or beam search global search methods) to accurately solve hard problems in Genomics. Moreover, since sequence assembly accuracy is particularly important in many applications (e.g., genome-wide association studies, detecting new polymorphisms, finding rare and de novo mutations), I focus to develop assembly metrics and validation tools to comparatively assess assembly quality and accuracy.

My research interests also include: Protein Structure Prediction, Multi-objective optimization, Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent Systems.

Seminars

SUTTA: Scoring-and-Unfolding Trimmed Tree Assembler
Zhang Lab: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) USA, September 2009.
A Multi-Objective Evolutionary Approach to the Protein Structure Prediction Problem
Computer-Aided Systems Laboratory (CASL), Princeton University USA, December 2007.

Program Committees

10th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS 2011), July 18-21, 2011 - Cambridge, UK.
International Conference on Evolutionary Computation 2010 (ICEC 2010), October 24-26, 2010 - Valencia, Spain.
The Second International Conference on Advances in Biotechnologies (BIOTECHNO 2010), March 7-13, 2010 - Cancun, Mexico (Session Chair).
The First International Conference on Computational and Systems Biology and Microbiology (BIOSYSCOM 2010), March 7-13, 2010 - Cancun, Mexico.
Second IEEE Symposium of Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM'09), Nashville, TN, March 30 - April 2, 2009.
2nd Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE 2008), 8-10 September 2008, Venezia, Italy.
2nd International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2007), Acireale, Sicily (Italy), November 8-10, 2007.
1st Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE 2007), 5 - 7 September 2007 - Baia Samuele, Sampieri (Ragusa), Italy.

Reviewer for

Robust Intelligence (RI) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) at the National Science Foundation (NSF).
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. International Journal.
Natural Computing. International Journal, Springer.
Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms, Springer.
Information Sciences, International Journal, Elsevier.
Knowledge-Based Systems, International Journal, Elsevier.
Memetic Computing, International Journal, Springer.

Member of

IEEE and SIAM.