OUR RESEARCH TEAM 2004

marina@caser-ind.com CS Department, Office 1N205 CSI/City University of New York Staten Island, NY 10314 Phone: 718 982 3288 Fax: 718 982 2856

I am currently a junior pursuing a double major in Computer Science and Sociology, with a Mathematics minor. My projected graduation date is June 2005. I hope to use my proficiency in C++, Assembly Language, MATLAB, as well as my working knowledge of SQL, PHP and HTML to perform research in the area of computer science and bioinformatics, develop models for proteine folding and analyze the folding trajectories. I was awarded Dean's List for the years 2001-2003, and I have a cumulative GPA of 3.98, with an academic emphasis on research. My own experiences include a year-long research project in Computer Science with Dr. Natacha Gueorguieva at CUNY/CSI focused on data clustering with Spiking Neurons. Other valuable experiences include social research, including data collection, analysis, and various methods of social research. I also have an interest in the field of real estate, and have worked in the field throughout my education thus-far. My experience with real estate includes working with the industry specific software LinkIt MLS System, Win2Data, Delorme Atlas, and Public Databases. I also work for Caser Industries, a web-development and programming company, aiding in the development and implementation of various systems, utilizing a wide-array of programming and database technologies. I plan to continue my education and research past my BS degree.

kavraki@rice.edu Computer Science Department, Office DH 3106 Department of Bioengineering (Joint Appointment) Rice University Houston, TX 77251 Phone: 713 348 5737 Fax: 713 348 5930

Lydia Kavraki is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rice University. She also holds a joint appointment with the Department of Bioengineering at Rice and the Graduate Program in Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics at the Baylor College of Medicine. She is also affiliated with the M.W. Keck Center for Computational Biology and the MD/PhD program at the Baylor College of Medicine. Kavraki's research is in the areas of bioinformatics, robotics and physical algorithms. She leads the Physical and Biological Computing Group at Rice. Kavraki has served in the program committees of several bioinformatics, robotics, and AI conferences (RECOMB, IROS, IJCAI, AAAI, ICRA, WAFR, ACM SCG) and co-organized and co-chaired the 3rd International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics. Kavraki has authored 8 book chapters, more than 80 peer-reviewed scientific papers and is the co-editor of one book. She is also contributing to a robotics textbook to be published in 2004. Kavraki's work has been recognized with the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award. Kavraki was also was fortunate to receive the NSF CAREER Award (Early Career Development Award), a Sloan Research Fellowship and the Early Academic Career Award from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Kavraki was selected as one of the Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT's Technology Review Magazine and was featured among the "Brilliant 10" investigators of the Popular Science Magazine. Kavraki was inducted to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in 2004.