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Institute Affiliations:
San Diego Supercomputer Center
California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
Contact Information:
Email:
jbrosen@cs.ucsd.edu
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| | J. Ben Rosen - Adjunct Professor
Parallel algorithms, global optimization, especially with respect to computational biology.
Professor Rosen has done extensive research on large-scale numerical optimization methods and applications. His current research interests include parallel algorithms for global optimization, with applications to computational biology. These applications are homology based prediction of protein fragment and fold structure from sequence, and ligand-protein docking based on the global minimization of an energy function. He is also doing research on structure preserving approximation and parameter estimation in nonlinear systems, based on minimizing the error in the one, two or infinity norm.
Capsule Bio:
In August 2002, Ben Rosen was elected to the European Academy of Sciences in its Computer Sciences section. The citation was for "an outstanding and lasting contribution to new optimization methods and computer science education." Apart from his adjunct professorship at the Jacobs School, Rosen is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota, and a Senior Fellow at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Rosen also serves as a faculty member of UCSD's graduate Bioinformatics Program. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Columbia University in 1952, after working from 1944-47 on the Manhattan project. In the 1950s he was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton for three years, and head of the applied math department of Shell Development Co. from 1955-62. Rosen was a visiting professor at Stanford University from 1962-64, then held professorships in the computer science departments of the University of Wisconsin (1964-71) and the University of Minnesota (1971-92).
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