336 Engineering II
Riverside, Ca 92521
Phone: 951-827-2991
FAX: 951-827-4643

Tao Jiang
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

Degrees

PhD Computer Science 1988

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

BSc Computer Science 1984

University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Awards

• Guo Mo-Ro Prize, University of Science and Technology of China, 1983
• Japan Society for the promotion of Science Research Fellowship, 1996
• The Best Poster Award, RECOMB'03, Berlin, Germany, 2003
• The Best Paper Award, 15th International Conference of Genome Informatics (GIW), Yokohama, Japan, Dec. 2004.
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2006 -.
• Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2007 -.
 

Research Area

Algorithms, computational biology, bioinformatics

Publications

105 journal publications, 89 peer-reviewed conference publications, 16 book chapters, and one edited book.

For additional information, please see Professor Jiang's faculty webpage.

http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~jiang

Former Institution

McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Biography

Tao Jiang received B.S. in Computer Science and Technology from  the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, in July 1984 and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Minnesota in Nov. 1988. He was a faculty member at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada during Jan. 1989 - July 2001 and is now Professor of  Computer Science and Engineering at University of California - Riverside. He is also a member of the UCR Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, a member of the Center for Plant Cell Biology, a principal scientist at Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology, and Changjiang Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University. Tao Jiang's recent research interest includes combinatorial algorithms, computational molecular biology, bioinformatics, and computational aspects of information retrieval. He serves or has served on the editorial boards of eight international journals in computer science and bioinformatics.

Last Updated
5/23/2008