Steering Committee

  • Aidong Zhang, State University of New York at Buffalo, Chair
  • Vasant Honavar, Penn State University, Conference Director

General Chairs

  • Pierre Baldi, University of California, Irvine
  • Wei Wang, University of California, Los Angeles

Program Chairs

  • Terry Gaasterland, University of California, San Diego
  • Ümit V. Çatalyürek, The Ohio State University
  • Bruce Schatz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Workshop Chair

  • Tamer Kahveci, University of Florida

Tutorial Chairs

  • Vasant Honavar, Penn State University
  • Amarda Shehu, George Mason University

Poster Chairs

  • Yu-Ping Wang, Tulane University
  • Dongxiao Zhu, Wayne State University

PHD Forum Chair:

    Jean Gao, University of Texas at Arlington

Translational Bioinformatics Panel Chairs

  • Orly Alter, University of Utah
  • May D. Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology

Women in Bioinformatics Panel Chair

  • May D. Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology

Exhibit/System Demo Chair

  • Richard Lathrop, University of California, Irvine

Registration Chair

  • Preetam Ghosh, Virginia Commonwealth University

Proceedings Chair

  • Jing Gao, State University of New York at Buffalo
  • Xinghua Mindy Shi, University of North Carolina

Industry Chairs

  • Anastasia Christianson, Bristol-Myers Squibb
  • Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, IBM Almaden
  • Bharat Rao, Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics, LLP

Publicity Chair

  • Jianlin Jack Cheng, University of Missouri, Columbia

Local Arrangement Chairs:

  • Xiaohui Xie, University of California, Irvine
  • Janet Ko, University of California, Irvine

Student Travel Award Chair:

  • Catie Welsh, Rhodes College

Web Masters:

  • Kang Li, State University of New York at Buffalo
  • Xiaowei Jia, State University of New York at Buffalo