CS 2003-2004 Faculty Information - Department of Computer ...

Daisuke Kihara
Education:
BS, Biochemistry, University of Tokyo, 1994
MS, Bioinformatics, Kyoto University, 1996
PhD, Bioinformatics, Kyoto University, 1999
Positions:
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Bio-sketch:
Dr. Kihara’s research interest is in the area of bioinformatics. In the last decade, a large amount of biological data, such
as genome/protein sequences, protein 3D structures, and pathway data have become available. This data now enables
us to employ comprehensive analysis of relationship between protein sequence, structure and function, evolution of
protein families, pathways, and organisms. Especially, he is focusing on developing computational methods to predict
and analyze protein structure/function, pathway structure, and their applications in genome-scale or pathway/network
scale. He has worked recently on protein structure prediction and comparison, development of prediction method of
transmembrane proteins, and its application to genome sequences.
Selected Publications:
Daisuke Kihara and Jeffrey Skolnick, “The PDB is a covering set of small protein structures,” Journal of Molecular
Biology, Volume 334 pp. 793-802, 2003.
Daisuke Kihara, Yang Zhang, Hui Lu, Andrzej Kolinski, and Jeffrey Skolnick, “Ab initio Protein Structure Prediction
on a Genomic Scale: Application to the Mycoplasma genitalium Genome,” Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences of the United States of America, Volume 99: pp. 5993-5998, 2002.
Daisuke Kihara, Hui Lu, Andrzej Kolinski, and Jeffrey Skolnick, “TOUCHSTONE: An ab initio Protein Structure
Prediction Method that Uses Threading-based Tertiary Restraints,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
of the United States of America, Volume 98: pp. 10125-10130, 2001.
Ninghui Li
Education:
BS, Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, 1993
MS, Computer Science, New York University, 1998
PhD, Computer Science, New York University, 2000
Position:
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Bio-sketch:
Professor Ninghui Li joined Purdue in August 2003 as an assistant professor in Computer Sciences. His research interests
are in computer security and applied cryptography, e.g., security and privacy in distributed systems, networks,
databases, and electronic commerce, with a focus on access control. One focus of Professor Li’s work is on trust management,
which is an approach to access control in decentralized, open, and distributed systems. He has designed,
together with Professors John Mitchell and Will Winsborough, the RT Role-based Trust-management framework,
efficient goal-directed algorithms to do distributed credential chain discovery, logic-based semantic foundations for
security policy languages, and algorithms and computational complexity characterization for analyzing properties of
security policies such as safety and availability.
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