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Invited Speakers
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Dr. Shiaofen Fang
Professor, Dept. of Computer and Information Science
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
Topic:
Gene Terrain: A Visual Analytic Approach to Bioinformatics
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Dr. Shiaofen Fang is a Professor of Computer Science at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). He received his Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Utah in 1992. Prior to joining IUPUI in 1996, he was a principal investigator in the Center for Information Enhanced Medicine of the National University of Singapore. Dr. Fang is currently serving as the Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Science, and the director of IUPUI Signature Center for Bio-Computing. Dr. Fang's primary research interest is in Visualization, Medical Imaging, and Computer Graphics. He has published extensively in these areas. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Nation Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ).
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Dr. Jake Chen
Director, Indiana Centre for Systems biology and Personalized Medicine
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
Topic:
Translational Bioinformatics: Power tools for Predictive Molecular Medicine
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Dr. Jake Chen has been an assistant professor of Informatics and Computer Science at the joint campus of Indiana University and University (IUPUI) since 2004. He is the founding director of the Indiana Center for Systems Biology and Personalized Medicine since 2007, and members of IU Cancer Center, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and Center for Biocomputing. He is the local chair of the IEEE Engineering in Biology and Medicine Society (central Indiana chapter), senior members of both IEEE and ACM, and an associate editor of BMC Systems Biology. Prior to joining Academia, he spent six year in the biopharmaceutical industry in the Silicon Valley and Utah doing research in bioinformatics, functional genomics, and proteomics. His research interests spans over biological data mining, bioinformatics, and translational medicine. He has served as principle investigators or co-investigators of more than $7M from a variety of local and federal agencies, given more than 100 invited talks nationally and internationally, and served on the program committee of more than 80 national and international meetings in biocomputing. He is the lead editors of two Academic books, “Biological Database Modeling” and “Biological Data Mining”, and the author/co-author of more than 70 research publications. In addition to Academic research, he is a strong interest in translating research to practice. Since coming to Indiana, he has co-founded Indiana Biomedical Entrepreneur’s Network (IBEN) and two biotech startup companies.
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Dr. Dan Tulpan
Research Officer and Head of Bioinformatics Lab
NRC Institute for Information Technology
National Research Council of Canada
Topic:
The Art of DNA Strand Design: Past, Present and Future
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Dr. Dan Tulpan is a Research Officer at the Department of Information Technology of the National Research Council of Canada. He received a Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department of the University of British Columbia (Canada) in 2006 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Brinkman Laboratory at Simon Fraser University and instructor for the Masters of Software Systems Program at UBC.
His research interests are currently focused on topics of bioinformatics, biotechnology, artificial intelligence and empirical algorithms.
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Dr. V N Balaji
Director and Chief Scientific Mentor
Jubilant Biosys Limited, Bangalore, India
Topic:
Modelling and Simulation for Molecular Design
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Dr. V N Balaji is an expert in the areas of Bioinformatics, Chemoinformatics and Scientific Management. He has more than 20 years of industrial experience in bio/chemo informatics with renowned multinational and national companies including Lederle Laboratories (Pearl River, NY, USA), Allergan Pharmaceuticals (Irvine, CA, USA) ImmunoPharmaceuticals (San Diego, CA, USA) and Monsanto (St. Louis, Missouri, USA). He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and then did his post-doctoral work in Computational Chemistry at Rutgers University (NJ, USA). He has co-authored more than 30 publications and 25 patents, including 19 published US patents. He is a member of more than 8 national and international organizations including Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) (Biotechnology), India.
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Dr. Pramod P Wangiker
Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Topic:
Genome Scale Metabolic Reconstruction and Metabolic Flux Analysis
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Dr. Pramod Wangikar is a professor of Chemical engineering at IIT Bombay, where he has been teaching for the past 11 years. He has received a bachelor’s in chemical engineering from University of Mumbai and Ph.D in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from the University of Iowa, USA. His research interests are currently focused on topics of Bioinformatics, Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Modeling, and Fermentation Modeling. He received several meritorious awards including INAE Young Engineer Award 2005, G. R. Manudhane Excellence in Research Award IIT Bombay 2005, BOYSCAST fellowship (DST, Govt of India) to visit University of Delaware USA (2004), DAE Young Scientist Award (Dept. of Atomic En ergy, Govt. of India) (1997), AICTE Career Award for Young Teachers (1998), Fellowship from the National Institute of Health (USA) through the Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing. He worked as a professor scientist in EnzyMed Inc. from May 1995 to July 1996, as an assistant professor in IIT Kanpur from July 1996 to December 1997 and in IIT Bombay from December 1997 to March 2003. Wangikar has published 35 papers in international journals of repute. Currently, he is on the editorial board of the journal “Biotechnology and Bioengineering. search to practice. Since coming to Indiana, he has co-founded Indiana Biomedical Entrepreneur’s Network (IBEN) and two biotech startup companies.
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