biographical sketch

NAME	POSITION TITLE	
Dennis Shasha	Professor	
EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education and include postdoctoral training.)
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION	DEGREE
(if applicable)	YEAR(s)	FIELD OF STUDY	
Yale College, New Haven, Conn	BS	1973-77	Engineering	
Harvard University, Cambridge, Ma	PhD	1980-84	Applied Math	

Research and Teaching Interests: Combinatorial pattern recognition on strings, trees, graphs, and microarray data. Data mining in genomics.

Academic and Research Experience:
dates		items
1984-present	Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor at NYU

Honors and Awards:
dates		items

Professional Activities:
dates		items
1991-present	Membership on 20 program committees of international conference.
1992-present	Coeditor-in-Chief of Information Systems (Elsevier)
1992-1995	Director of Undergraduate Studies in Computer Science
199-present	Director of Graduate Studies in Computer Science
Current Research/TrainingSupport:
 
1. ASES: an approximate search engine for structure
2000-2003. National Science Foundation.
Award number: 9988345.  Approximately, \$282,440 over three years.

2. Research Fellowship Award, Department of Health and Human Services,
National Institutes of Health. For project entitled: "Using Computers to
Analyze Transcription Factor Networks"}
Grant: 1F32 GM20716-01
Duration: 3 years
Activation date: July 1, 2000.
Support for Dr. Ken Birnbaum in our joint project. 

3. Cold Spring Harbor/NYU/NYBG Genomics Consortium, bioinformatics support for one student.

4. N2010: Nitrogen Networks in Plants
National Science Foundation : 2001-2005. PIs: Dan Bush, Nigel Crawford and Gloria Coruzzi, UIUC, UCSD & NYU.

Number of Undergraduates Mentored/Supervised, 1999-2000, 2000-2001: 3, 4

Selected Publications:

"Cis-Element/Transcription Factor Analysis (cis/TF):  A Method for Discovering Transcription Factor cis-Element Relationships," Philip Benfey, Ken Birnbaum, and Dennis Shasha. Genome Research, to appear.

Munir Cochinwala, Verghese Kurien, Gail Lalk, and Dennis Shasha ``Efficient data reconcilation'' Information Sciences 137, (2001), pp. 1-15
   
J. T. L. Wang, Q. Ma, D. Shasha and C. H. Wu, ``New Techniques for Extracting Features from Protein Sequences,'' {\em IBM Systems Journal}, Special Issue on Deep Computing for the Life Sciences, invited, Vol. 40, No. 2, 2001, pp. 426-441 (accessible at http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj40-2.html)
   
``Finding Patterns in Three Dimensional Graphs:  Algorithms and Applications to  Scientific Data Mining'' Xiong Wang, Jason T-L Wang, Dennis Shasha, Bruce Shapiro,  Isidore Rigoutsos, and Kaizhong Zhang IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, to appear
   
``An Index Structure for Data Mining and Clustering'' by Xiong Wang, Jason T.L. Wang, King-Ip Lin, Dennis Shasha, Bruce A. Shapiro, and Kaizhong Zhang Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal ISSN 0219-1377 by Springer-Verlag Volume 2, Number 2 (May 2000) pp. 161-184
   
``New Techniques for DNA Sequence Classification,'' Jason T. L. Wang, Steve Rozen, Bruce A. Shapiro, Dennis Shasha, Zhiyuan Wang and Maisheng Yin, {\em Journal of Computational Biology}, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1999, pp. 209-218.
                                                                     
K. Jacob and Dennis Shasha ``FinTime --- a financial time series benchmark'' Sigmod Record, December, 1999
   
 An Approximate Search Engine for Structural Databases 
Jason Wang, Qicheng Ma, Xiong Wang, Bruce Shapiro, Dennis Shasha, Zasha Weinberger, Kaizhong Zhang Sigmod 2000