Research interests Probability theory and stochastic models Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) Generalized Pair Hidden Markov Models (GPHMMs) Conditional Random Fields Percolation on one-dimensional lattices Branching processes Algorithm development and software implementation Bioinformatics and comparative genomics Biological sequence analysis Cross-species gene finding Protein domain prediction Promoter analysis and motif-prediction Some ongoing projects Cross-species gene finding using GPHMMs Conditional random fields applied to comparative genomics Comparative marine genomics Promoter analysis of herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) Driver maneuver prediction using HMMs