Gangman Yi
 Ph.D student
The department of Computer Science
Texas A&M University

Office : 328-A Harvey R. Bright Bldg. TAMU

Educations :
  • Ph.D. Student in Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA, (Current)
  • M.S. in Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA, (2006)
          Thesis : An algorithm for identifying clusters of functionally related genes in genomes
          Co-advisors : Dr. Michael Thon & Dr. Sing-Hoi Sze
  • B.E. in Computer Science & Engineering, Kangnung National University, South Korea, (2002)
Research Advisor : Dr. Sing-Hoi Sze

Research Interests : Computational Biology and Bioinformtics

Research Projects :
  • "Large-scale analysis of gene clusters in multiple genomes"
    - Advisor : Dr. Sing-Hoi Sze (current)

  • "Protein family classification based on accurate sequence alignments"
    - Advisor : Dr. Sing-Hoi Sze & Dr. Michael Thon (2007~2008)

  • "An algorithm for identifying clusters of functionally related genes in genomes"
    - A method that can find gene clusters regardless of the mechanism of origin which would provide researchers with an unbiased method for finding clusters and studying the evolutionary forces.
    - Advisor : Dr. Michael Thon & Dr. Sing-Hoi Sze (2006)
    - C-Hunter : [web page]

  • "Identifying conserved genes in a set of genomes with a formulation of conserved gene clusters"
    - Advisor : Dr. Sing-Hoi Sze & Dr. Michael Thon (2005)
Publication & Meeting :
  • Yang, Q., Yi, G., Zhang, F., Thon, M. R. and Sze, S.-H. (2010) Identifying Gene Clusters within Localized Regions in Multiple Genomes, Journal of Computational Biology, to appear
  • Jung, J., Yi, G., Sukno, S. and Thon, M.R. (2008) FPC-DB: the fungal protein cluster database, 9th European conference on fungal genetics, Edinburgh, Scotland, April 4-5
  • Yi, G., Sze, S.-H. and Thon, M.R. (2007) Identifying clusters of functionally related genes in genome. Bioinformatics, 23, 1053-1060
    (Ranked top of the most frequently read articles for the month of May 2007)
  • Yi, G., Jung, J., Benito, E.P., Eslava, A.P., Díaz-Mínguez, J.M., Sukno, S.A ., Thon, M.R. (2007) XXXVI Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Genética. Leon, España, Sep. 18-21.
  • Yi, G., Jung, J., Sukno, S. and Thon, M.R. (2007) Computational resources for fungal genomics. 24th Fungal Genetics Conference, Asilomar, CA, USA, March 20-25.
Honors & Awards
  • 5th Scholarship, Korean-American Buddhist Scholarship Foundation, USA (Nov. 2007)
  • Departmental Scholarship, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University (2004 ~ 2005)
  • Hyoryung Scholarship, South Korea (Sep. 2001)
  • The First Rank in the Software Exhibition, Department of Computer Science, Kangnung National University, South Korea (Oct. 2000)
  • Brain Korea 21 Scholarship, Ministry of Education, South Korea (1999 ~ 2001)
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