I am a PhD student at Computer Science and Engineering of UC, San Diego. I am currently working with Prof. Vineet Bafna. My current focus of research is algorithms and machine learning and their applications in computational biology.

Publications:

Banu Dost, Tomer Shlomi, Nitin Gupta, Vineet Bafna, and Roded Sharan, "QNet: A tool for querying biological networks", RECOMB 2007.

Banu Dost, Buhm Han, Shaojie Zhang and Vineet Bafna, "Structural alignment of pseudoknotted RNA", RECOMB 2006.

Short Bio:
PhD student, Computer Science, UC San Diego, USA (2004 - Present)
BS, Computer Science and Engineering, Sabanci University, TURKEY (1999 - 2004)

E-mail: bdost at cs.ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 534-8855
Office: CSE 4252

Mailing address:
Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0404 .

Bioinformatics Group at UCSD