LILA KARI Professor University Research Chair School of Computer Science University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario Canada N2L 3G1 Tel. +1-519-888-4567, ext. 33336 email: "firstname" at "uwaterloo.ca"

BIOSCAN

• BIOSCAN: A global biosurveillance system may hold the answer to protecting life on the planet
• Finding the branches on the tree of life (docx) (featured on ACM Tech News , and CACM)
• Multidisciplinary Global Biodiversity Project
• New Frontiers in Research Fund

COVID-19 research

• New method could identify COVID-19-like viruses within minutes (pdf)
• Lila Kari and her colleagues use machine learning-based analysis to quickly
  classify novel pathogens such as the COVID-19 virus (pdf)
• Researchers crack COVID-19 genome signature (pdf)
• International media coverage

Research Topics

• Biodiversity informatics, data science, machine learning
• Comparative genomics, metagenomics, and epigenomics
• Natural computation
• Bioinformation and biocomputation - theoretical aspects
• Nanocomputation by DNA self-assembly
• Models of cellular computation
• Watson-Crick complementarity in formal languages

Biography     Media     Awards     Select papers

Journal "Theoretical Computer Science C" (EiC)

H-index, Erdos number         Grad Students/Postdocs

Publications     Molecular (DNA) Computing     Teaching

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Video description

King, the silent co-author of all my joint papers, 2008-2022