Activities:




July 5-7, 2006: Paper Presentation at CPM 2006, Barcelona, Spain.
"Reconstructing Domain Compositions of Ancestral Multidomain Proteins"

June 28-29, 2006: Google Code Jam Programming Contest, World Final, Dublin, Ireland.
"Google Code Jam World Finals"

April 27, 2006: Oral Presentation at Automatic Group Meeting, MPI, Berlin, Germany.
"Graph Algorithms for anyone and forever"

April 9-13, 2006: ACM ICPC Programming contest, World Finals, San Antonio, Texas.
"ACM ICPC World Finals 2006"

February 7, 2006: Invited Lecturer, Computer Science dept., Freie University, Berlin, Germany.
"Gene duplications and Reconciliation Trees"

January 19, 2006: Oral Presentation at Automatic Group Meeting, MPI, Berlin, Germany.
"The Macro-Evolutionary Phlogeny Problem"

December 12-14, 2005: Oral Presentation at Workshop 2005 of the Lix, Ecole Polytechnique, France.
"Efficient Algorithms for Comparison of Minisatellite Sequences"

November 19-20, 2005: SWERC'05 programming contest, Ecole Polytechnique, France.
"South-Western European Regional ACM programming Contest 2005"

July 13, 2005: Phd Thesis Defense, Ecole Polytechnique, France.
"Comparing Sequence Evolutionary Structures Efficiently: A Dynamic Programming Approach"

June 19-22, 2005: Paper Presentation at CPM 2005, Jeju Island, Korea.
"DNA Compression Challenge Revisited: A Dynamic Programming Approach"

May 2005: Oral Presentation at Institue Pasteur, Paris.
"Efficient Algorithms for Comparing sequences with Tandem Repeats"

May 2005: Oral Presentation at Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.
"Efficient Algorithms for Comparison of Minisatellites"

November 20-21, 2004: SWERC'04 programming contest, Ecole Polytechnique, France.
"South Western European Regional ACM Programming Contest 2004"

October 5-8, 2004: Paper Presentation at SPIRE 2004, Padova, Italy.
"On The Transformation Distance Problem"

September 17-21, 2004: Paper Presentation at WABI 2004, Bergen, Norway.
"The Minisatellite Transformation Problem Revisited: A Run-Length Encoded Approach"

January-March, 2004: Internship at Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), Seattle, USA.
"Tandem Mass Spectrometry Data Analysis"

November 20-21, 2003: Oral Presentation at Meeting on Sequence Algorithms. Montpellier, CNRS.
"Transformation Distance Problem"

November 15-16, 2003: SWERC'03 Programming Contest, Ecole Polytechnique, France.
"South-Western European Regional ACM Programming Contest"

September 22-24, 2003: Paper Presentation at PSC2003, Prague.
"Transformation Distance Problem Revisited"

June 25-27, 2003: Paper Presentation at 14th Annual Symposium, CPM 2003, Morelia, Mexico.
"An Improved Algorithm for Generalized Comparison of Minisatellites"

May 13, 2003: Poster Presentation at BBC 2003, with JMS and JW. Leuven, Belgium
"can RNA Super-Optimal Structures improve the secondary structure prediction ?"

March 6, 2003: Oral Presentation at Bioinformatic seminar. LRI
"AMSAG Algorithm as a prediction tool for RNA secondary structures"

January 20-21, 2003: Oral Presentation at Meeting on Sequence Algorithms. Nancy, LORIA
" An Improved Algorithm for comparison of minisatellites"

December 13, 2002: Oral Presentation at 1st LIX Bioinformatic Workshop.
" A new algorithm for prediction of RNA secondary structures"

October 6-9, 2002: Paper Presentation at ECCB2002. Saarbruken, Germany.
"An Approximate Matching Algorithm for Finding (Sub-)Optimal Sequences in S-Attributed Grammars"

June 24-26, 2002: Oral Presentation at RNA Secondary Structures Conference, Dijon, France
" Modeling RNA Seocondary Structures by S-Attributed Grammars"