BENJAMIN RAPHAEL

My research focuses on the development and application of computational and mathematical methods for analyzing biological systems. Particular areas of interest include computational problems arising in comparative and regulatory genomics, cancer genomics, evolution, and genetics.

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Biography

Ben Raphael received a S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1996), and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California, San Diego (2002). He then began an Alfred P. Sloan Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Molecular Biology at U.C. San Diego, where he worked with Pavel Pevzner. In 2005, he was awarded a Career Award at the Scientific Interface from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. In 2006, Prof. Raphael joined the faculty at Brown where he is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and a member of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology. Prof. Raphael's research focuses on the design of algorithms for biological problems. Recent interests include cancer genomics, structural variation in the human genome, and DNA sequencing technologies.

Curricum Vitae

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BENJAMIN RAPHAEL, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Computer Science
Phone: +1 401 863 7643
Phone 2: +1 401 863 7643
E-mail: Benjamin_Raphael@brown.edu

Benjamin Raphael's Brown Research URL:
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Benjamin_Raphael

On The Web:
Raphael Group Website

Collaborators at other institutions:
Colin Collins, University of California, San Francisco Cancer Center
Pavel Pevzner, University of California, San Diego

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