I am currently an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics of Simon Fraser University. I was previously with the Computer Science Department of Université du Québec à Montréal.

I am a member of the following labs, groups and programs: School of Computing Science, SFU (associate member), SFU Discrete Mathematics Group, Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics (CECM), Centre for Operations Research and Decision Sciences (CORDS), Bioinformatics Training Program for Health Research (associate faculty), PIMS International Graduate Training Centre (IGTC) in Mathematical Biology, Laboratoire de Combinatoire et Informatique Mathématiques (LaCIM, UQAM).

Research interests and funding. (See following link)
My current research deals primarily with mathematical and computational questions arising from comparative genomics. This includes problems on genome rearrangements, gene families evolution, and computational analysis of RNA, with a strong focus on algorithmic and mathematical aspects.

Teaching.
Depending on the sessions, I am teaching courses in discrete mathematics, programming, theoretical computer science and bioinformatics. Currently I do not teach.

Administrative activities.
I am currently on sabbatical, and thus do have administrative activity limited to the organization of the VanBUG seminar series.

Great recent and upcoming conferences and workshops.

• RECOMB-CG 2013, Lyon, October 17-19, 2013.
• ACM BCB 2013, Washington, September 22-25, 2013.
• WABI 2013, Nice, September 02-04, 2013.
• ISMB/ECCB 2013, Berlin, July 21-23, 2013.
• JOBIM 2013, Toulouse, July 01-04, 2013

Students and post-doctoral fellows.
List of current and past students including their projects and publications.

Softwares.

• ANGES: reconstructing ANcestral GEnomeS maps.
• BRASERO: Benchmarking RNA secondary structure comparison algorithms. Paper.
• RNA StrAT, our RNA Structure Analysis Toolkit. ISMB 2008 poster.
• FragANCHOR, a machine-learning tool for the prediction of GPI-anchored protein sequences. Paper.

Selected recent papers.

• À la recherche des génomes perdus : Modèles, Méthodologies et Algorithmes pour la Comparaison de Génomes, Habilitation à diriger des recherches, University Bordeaux I.
• Linearization of ancestral multichromosomal genomes has been published in BMC Bioinformatics.
• ANGES: Reconstructing ANcestral GEnomeS maps has been published in Bioinformatics.
• A tight bound on the length of odd cycles in the incompatibility graph of a non-C1P matrix has been published in Information Processing Letters.
• Hardness results on the gapped consecutive-ones property problem has been published in Discrete Applied Mathematics