Niranjan Nagarajan 301 Maple Avenue, Apt. E3, Ithaca, NY 14850 Cell: (607) 227-0667 Office: (607) 255-4574 E-mail address: niranjan at cs.cornell.edu

I graduated from the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University in December 2006. I did my thesis under the supervision of Prof. Uri Keich. I am currently doing a postdoc at the University of Maryland (College Park) with Prof. Mihai Pop. My homepage at UMD is here.

Publications:

• Niranjan Nagarajan, Patrick Ng and Uri Keich. Refining motif finders with E-value calculations. To appear in RECOMB-RG06
  
  
• Patrick Ng, Niranjan Nagarajan, Neil Jones and Uri Keich. Apples to apples: improving the performance of motif finders and their significance analysis in the Twilight Zone. To appear in ISMB 2006
  
  
• Niranjan Nagarajan and Uri Keich. New algorithms offering improved efficiency-accuracy tradeoffs for the Mann-Whitney test. In submission
  
  
• Uri Keich and Niranjan Nagarajan. A fast and numerically robust method for exact multinomial goodness-of-fit test. To appear in Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
  
  
• Niranjan Nagarajan, Neil Jones and Uri Keich. Computing the p-value of the information content from an alignment of multiple sequences. ISMB 2005
  
  
• Uri Keich, Niranjan Nagarajan. A Faster Reliable Algorithm to Estimate the p-Value of the Multinomial llr Statistic. WABI 2004
  
  
• Niranjan Nagarajan, Golan Yona. Automatic prediction of protein domains from sequence information using a hybrid learning system. Bioinformatics 20(9): 1335-1360 (2004)
  
  
• Niranjan Nagarajan, Golan Yona. A multi-expert system for the automatic detection of protein domains from sequence information. RECOMB 2003
  
  

Software:

• Biozon domain prediction server
  
  
• Statistical significance of alignments
  
  
• Statistical significance for a multinomial goodness-of-fit test
  
  

Presentations:

• At the Workshop in Algorithms on Bioinformatics (WABI), September 2004 (Paper).
  
  
• At the International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), August 2002 (Poster).
  
  

Pictures:

• India Trip 2004
  
  
• Bergen Trip 2004
  
  
• India Trip 2005
  
  

People:

• Ishani Mukherjee
  
  
• Abhinandan Das
  
  
• Biswanath Panda
  
  
• Grigory Bronevetsky
  
  
• Elliot Anshelevich
  
  

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