2006 Nov 28
Professors Kate Larson and Dan Brown have both won Early Researcher Awards. They will receive up to $100,000 from the Ontario government and $50,000 from the University to help them recruit graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and research associates.
Professor Larson is investigating multi-agent negotiation systems in resource-bounded environments, for example, electronic marketplaces such as EBay. In open computing systems, such as the Internet, users act in their own self-interest to further their own goals, irrespective of the desires of others. Using artificial intelligence, game theory and microeconomics, Larson and her research team will design protocols that can be used in computational settings such as electronic marketplaces and can effectively juggle competing users' self-interest.
Professor Brown’s project, “Information Discovery in Biological sequences,” will develop new ideas and software to understand DNA and protein sequences. While genomic sequencing projects have created enormous amounts of raw data, there is a pressing need for technology to interpret the data. Brown’s project will focus on developing tools to find genes, interpret the structure of membrane proteins and identify evolutionary sequences. Ultimately, these tools may help to better understand genetic diseases and develop potential treatments.
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Tel: 519-888-4567 x33293
Fax: 519-885-1208
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