Professor Sagi Snir

Education

• 2004-2006: Postdoc – University of California, Berkeley
  • Dept. of Mathematics . Advisor: Prof. L. Pachter
  • Dept. of Computer Science . Advisor: Prof. S. Rao.
• 2000-2004: Ph.D. – Technion , Israel.
  • Dept. of Computer Science. Advisor: Prof. B. Chor. Thesis Title: Computational Issues in Phylogenetic Reconstruction: Analytic Maximum Likelihood Solutions, and Convex Recoloring.

• 1994-1997: M.Sc. – Technion , Israel.
  • • Dept. of Computer Science. Advisor: Prof. S. Moran . Thesis Title: Simple and Efficient Network Decomposition and Synchronization. Our construction, to the best of our knowledge, still provides the fastest asynchronous BFS.
• 1986-1991: B.A. – Bar Ilan University, Israel.
• • • dept. of Computer Science,
    • dept. of Economics.

Teaching

• 2010/2011:

  1. Algorithms in Compuational Biology
  2. Statistical Genetics and Genomics
  3. Seminar on Phylogenetics
  4. Introduction to Phylogenetic Reconstruction
• 2009/2010:
  1. Statistical Genetics and Genomics
  2. Seminar on Phylogenetics
  3. Introduction to Phylogenetic Reconstruction
  4. Calculus for Biologists

  Past courses: Operating Systems, Introduction to Compilers, Procedural Programming

  Program Committees

  ESA 2013

• RECOMB 2012
• IEEE BIBM 2012
• ACM BCB 2012
• IEEE BIBM 2011
• IEEE BIBM 2010
• IEEE BIBM 2009

Employment and Positions

• 7-8/2013: Visiting Scientist – Eugene Koonin’s Evolutionary Genomics Group at NCBI, NIH.

• 7-8/2012: Visiting Scientist – Eugene Koonin’s Evolutionary Genomics Group at NCBI, NIH.

• 9-10/2011: Visiting Scientist – Mathematical and Computational Approaches in High-Throughput Genomics at IPAM, UC Los Angeles.

• 7-8/2010: Visiting Scientist – Eugene Koonin’s Evolutionary Genomics Group at NCBI, NIH.

• 9/2009: Visiting Scientist – Nick Goldman’s Evolutionary Biology Group at EBI

• 7-8/2009: Visiting Scientist – Eugene Koonin’s Evolutionary Genomics Group at NCBI, NIH.

• 2008-… : Senior Lecturer – Department of Evolutionary & Environmental Biology at the University of Haifa. Head of the Bioinformatics program.

• 2006-… : Senior Researcher – Institute of Evolution at the University of Haifa

• 2006-2007 : Senior Lecturer – Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at Netanya College.