Combinatorial algorithms for DNA sequence assembly. F. Alizadeh, R. Karp, D. Wisser, and J. Zweig. Physical mapping of chromosomes using unique probes. His research interests are in the design and analysis of algorithms, computational biology, and applied algorithms and optimization. His current research is in DNA sequence assembly, genome rearrangements, and multiple sequence alignment.
Data mining combines methods from machine learning, statistics, and databases.
Data mining has recently attracted a lot of attention from the research community and from the industrial sector. In these lectures we discuss briefly the motivation and the application areas of the research in data mining. We concentrate on the basic algorithmic problems of data mining and study how the problems and methods of data mining differ from those used in machine learning and in statistics. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of Helsinki. He has since then worked at the University of Tampere, at the National Public Health Institute of Finland, at the Technical University of Vienna, and at the University of Helsinki, as well as a consultant in industry.