| Ph.D.: |
2001, Tel-Aviv University
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| Phone: |
(Office) +972-3-640-5970
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| E-mail: |
heran@ICSI.Berkeley.edu
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| Room#: |
Green 008 |
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Personal Information
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Education:
| 1990 - 1993 |
B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer
Science, Tel-Aviv University |
| 1993 - 1996 |
M.Sc. in Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University |
| 1997 - 2001 |
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University
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Academic
Positions:
| 2000 |
Summer intern in AT&T research
labs, Florham Park, New Jersey |
| 2001 - 2003 |
Post-doc, Computer Science department of the
University of California in Berkeley, and at
the International Computer Science Institute
(ICSI) |
| 2003 - 2004 |
Research Associate, Computer Science department,
Princeton University |
| 2004-present |
Senior Research Scientist, International Computer
Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley |
| 2008-present |
Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science,
Tel-Aviv Univeristy |
| 2008-present |
Senior Lecturer, Deptartment of Molecular Microbiology
and Biotechnology, Tel-Aviv University |
Academic
and Professional Awards:
| 1991 - 1992 |
Prize of excellence in the 32nd
and in the 33rd Grossman mathematics Olympics
of the Israel Institute of Technology, the Technion |
| 1993 |
24th in the Putnum mathematics competition |
| 1999 |
The Maus prize (for Ph.D.), Tel-Aviv University |
| 2000 |
The Checkpoint prize (for Ph.D.), Tel-Aviv University |
| 2000 |
The Intel prize (for Ph.D.), Tel-Aviv University |
| 2001 |
The Rothschild fellowship (for post-doc) |
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Research Interests
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- Computational
Biology
- Population Genetics
- Statistical Genetics
For more information about the research in our lab,
current projects, and open positions, please visit
our lab at http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~heran/cozygene
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Selected Publications
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"Genomic Privacy and
Limits of Individual Detection in a Pool", Nature
Genetics, 2009.
"SNP imputation in association studies",
Nature Biotechnology, 2009.
"Maximizing power in association studies",
Nature Biotechnology, 2009.
"Estimating Local Ancestry in Admixed Populations",
American Journal of Human Genetics,
2008
"Whole-genome patterns of common DNA variation
in three human populations", Science,
2005.
"Haplotype reconstruction from genotype data
using imperfect phylogeny", Bioinformatics,
2004.
"Asymmetric k-center is log* n-hard to approximate",
Journal of the ACM, 2005.
"Improved approximation algorithms for the vertex
cover problem in graphs and hypergraphs", SIAM
Journal of Computing, 2002.
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