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
Scientists
Expertise: Genome Annotation, Bioinformatics Programming, Biopharmaceutical, Adventitious Virus Detection
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
Expertise: Microbial/Viral Community Analysis, Ecology, Phylogenetics, Metagenomics
