Faculty Profiles
Yanni Sun
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- bioinformatics
- computational biology
Research Biography
Yanni Sun is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. She earned her Ph.D. (’08) in computer science from Washington University in St. Louis. Sun's research interests are bioinformatics, computational biology, and developing algorithms and software to solve problems motivated by molecular biology. Her recent focus is efficient algorithms for discovering protein and noncoding RNA signals hidden in large-scale databases.
Selected Publications
- Y. Sun and J. Buhler, "Designing Secondary Structure Profiles for Fast ncRNA Identification." Proceedings of the Seventh Annual International Conference on Computational Systems Bioinformatics (CSB 08), CA, USA, 2008.
- Y. Sun and J. Buhler, "Designing multiple simultaneous seeds for DNA similarity search." Journal of Computational Biology, 12:847-861, 2005,special issue of RECOMB 04.
- Y. Sun and J. Buhler. "Designing patterns for profile HMM search." Bioinformatics, 23:36-43, 2007, special issue of ECCB 06.
- J. Buhler, U. Keich, and Y. Sun, "Designing seeds for similarity search in genomic DNA." Proceedings of the Seventh Annual International Conference on Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 03), 67-75, Berlin, Germany, April 2003.