Leadership

Cathy Wu

Unidel Edward G. Jefferson Chair in Engineering and Computer Science
Director, Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (CBCB)
Director, Data Science Institute (DSI)
Director, Protein Information Resource (PIR)
Professor, Computer & Information Sciences
Professor, Biological Sciences

wuc@udel.edu | 302-831-8869 | 147 BPI

Expertise: Biological Text Mining, Biological Ontology, Computational Systems Biology, Protein Structure-Function-Network Analysis, Bioinformatics Cyberinfrastructure

Shawn W. Polson

Director, Bioinformatics Data Science Core Facility
Associate Director, CBCB Research and Infrastructure
Director, Data Science Core (Delaware INBRE)
Professor, Computer and Information Sciences
Professor, Biological Sciences
Professor, Plant and Soil Sciences

polson@udel.edu | 302-831-3235 | 315 BPI

Expertise: Genomics, Transcriptomics, Metagenomics, Phylogenetics, Genomic Technologies, High Performance Computing, Bioinformatics Programming

Karen Hoober

Associate Director, Graduate Education & Outreach
Computer & Information Sciences Department
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

khoober@udel.edu | 302-831-6173 | 147 BPI

Faculty

Cecilia Arighi

Instructor

Computer and Information Sciences

arighi@dbi.udel.edu | 302-831-3444 | APBio Suite 147B

Chuming Chen

Associate Professor

Computer & Information Sciences

chenc@udel.edu | 302-831-3426 | BPI 147

Expertise: Data Management and Data Integration, Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics, Deep Learning, Bioinformatics, Semantic Web and Ontology Engineering

Sheng-Chih Chen

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Computer & Information Sciences

scchen@udel.edu | 147 BPI

Hongzhan Huang

Associate Professor

Computer & Information Sciences

hhuang@udel.edu | 302-831-3445 | 147 BPI

Expertise: Proteomics, Pathway/Enrichment Analysis, Biostatistics

Scientists

Madolyn MacDonald

Associate Bioinformatics Scientist

mmacd@udel.edu | BPI 147

Expertise: Genome Annotation, Bioinformatics Programming, Biopharmaceutical, Adventitious Virus Detection

Karen Ross

Post Doctoral Researcher

keross@udel.edu | 302-831-0161 | 147 BPI

Jennifer Wyffels

Post Doctoral Researcher

wyffels@udel.edu | 302-831-3242 | DBI 205

Staff

Jaysheel Bhavsar

Bioinformatics Programmer
Adjunct Instructor

jaysheel@udel.edu | 302-831-6505 | BPI 147

Expertise: Bioinformatics Programming, Web Design, High Performance Computing, Transcriptomics, Metagenomics

Linda Chen

Bioinformatics Software and Database Engineer

yxchen@udel.edu | 302-831-3423 | 147 BPI

Amelia Harrison

Academic Advisor I

aoh@udel.edu | BPI 147

Expertise: Microbial/Viral Community Analysis, Ecology, Phylogenetics, Metagenomics

Yuqi (Michael) Wang

Bioinformatics Programmer

yuqiwang@udel.edu | 302-831-3234 | 147 BPI