Dr. Hamidreza Chitsaz is assistant professor of Computer Science at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. Prior to joining Wayne State University, Dr. Chitsaz was a postdoctoral scholar at University of California, San Diego where he initiated single-cell genome assembly in collaboration with Pavel Pevzner and Glenn Tesler at UCSD and Roger Lasken at JCVI. Dr. Chitsaz contributed to RNA structure and RNA-RNA interaction prediction algorithms as a postdoctoral fellow at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada before joining UCSD. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and M.S. in Mathematics from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008 and 2006 respectively. Dr. Chitsaz holds two B.Sc. degrees with honors, in Computer Engineering and Mathematics, from Sharif University of Technology. Dr. Chitsaz has received an NSF research award, the best highlights paper award at GLBio 2013, and the best engineering challenge award at RoboCup 2001. He is a member of IEEE, ISCB, and SIAM.
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