Sahar Al Seesi

Sahar Al Seesi is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department. She received her PhD from the University of Connecticut in 2010, and she worked there as a Postdoctoral Fellow then as an Assistant Professor in Residence. Sahar also worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Smith College in Massachusetts. Sahar's research interest is in bioinformatics. She works on developing algorithms to analyze next-generation sequencing data. Her research addresses various interrelated problems, including RNA transcriptome reconstruction, allele specific isoform expression estimation, gene differential expression and cancer specific variant identification and neo-epitope prediction. Tackling each of these problems requires employing a combination of computational approaches such as machine learning, grammatical modeling, statistical analysis, dynamic programming and expectation maximization algorithms.