Dr. Huzefa Rangwala’s Laboratory
Potential 2012 Aspiring Scientists Summer Internship Projects
* Laboratory located at Mason's Fairfax Campus
The Machine Learning in Biomedical Informatics (MLBio+) Laboratory performs interdisciplinary research aimed at development of machine learning and data mining methods for problems in biology, medicine and social media analysis. There is an emphasis on development of novel algorithms, and engineering of effective solutions to discover knowledge from emerging data. Our research has resulted in development of useful and efficient software tools that aid biologists to make key discoveries, and some of the contributions have advanced the field of computer science.
Potential projects:
1. Develop species diversity and richness estimators from metagenome samples.
2. Develop hierarchical classification approaches for annotating metagenomes.
3. Develop biologist-friendly computational pipelines using DRUPAL and GALAXY for analyzing human microbiome data in collaboration with the Microbiome Analysis Center.