Dr Eran Halperin
Ph.D.: 2001, Tel-Aviv University
Phone: (Office) +972-3-640-5970
E-mail: heran@ICSI.Berkeley.edu
Room#: Green 008
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Personal Information

 

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

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)

Research Interests

- 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





Selected Publications

"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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