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. In the Fall 2011, I do not teach. In the Spring 2012 I will teach MATH443/743 (Combinatorial Theory) and in the Summer 2012 I will teach MATH240 (Linear Algebra I).

Administrative activities.
I am currently co-chair of the Graduate Studies Committee of the Department of Mathematics.

Great recent and upcoming conferences and workshops.

• VanBUG, Vancouver, once a month through the year.
• ISMB 2012, Long Beach, July 15-17, 2012.
• CPM 2012, Helsinki, July 3-5, 2012.
• RECOMB 2012, Barcelona, April 21-24, 2012.
• Mathematical and Computational Approaches in High-Throughput Genomics, Los Angeles, September 12 - December 16 2011.

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

Softwares.

• 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.
• Efficient chaining of seeds in ordered trees has been published in Journal of Discrete Algorithms.
• Tractability results for the Double-Cut-and-Join circular median problem is available on the ArXiV.
• Consistency-based detection of potential tumor-specific deletions in matched normal/tumor genomes has been published in BMC Bioinformatics.
• A 2-Approximation for the Minimum Duplication Speciation Problem has been published in Journal of Computational Biology.
• A tight bound on the length of odd cycles in the incompatibility graph of a non-C1P matrix is available on the ArXiV.
• Average-case analysis of perfect sorting by reversals has been published in Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications.
• Reconstructing the architecture of the ancestral amniote genome has been published (advance access) in Bioinformatics.
• Mapping ancestral genomes with massive gene loss: a matrix sandwich problem has been published in the proceedings of ISMB/ECCB 2011.
• Tractability results for the Consecutive-Ones Property with multiplicity has been published in the proceedings of CPM 2011.
• An Efficient Method for Exploring the Space of Gene Tree/Species Tree Reconciliations in a Probabilistic Framework has been published in IEEE/ACM Transactions in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.

Conferences, seminars and visits.

• MonBUG, December 14, 2011.
• Evolutionary Genomics, November 15-18, 2011.
• VanBUG, September 8, 2011.