1 DNA Way
Mail Stop 93
South San Francisco, CA 94080
USA
serban dot nacu at gmail dot com

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the department of bioinformatics at Genentech.

Previous research positions: Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, in mathematics; Stanford University, in statistics.
I received my Ph. D. in statistics in 2004 from University of California, Berkeley (my thesis advisor was Yuval Peres) and my B.A. in mathematics in 1996 from Harvard University.
I also spent two years working for D. E. Shaw & Co. in New York City.

Recent Projects

• next generation DNA sequencing
• microarray studies of genes involved in the immune reponse to cancer: the GXNA algorithm
• the mathematical modeling of ant colonies
• probability theory: some topics of interest are the Ising model, simulation algorithms, and the Brownian loop soup

Courses

Statistics 116, Spring 2006 (Stanford account required)

Papers

Probability Theory

Serban Nacu, Increments of Random Partitions, Combinatorics, Probability and Computing, 15:4, 589-595 (2006): pdf.
Serban Nacu and Yuval Peres, Fast Simulation of New Coins From Old, Annals of Applied Probability, 15, 93-115 (2005): pdf.
Serban Nacu, Glauber Dynamics on the Cycle Is Monotone, Probability Theory and Related Fields, 127, 177-185 (2003): pdf.

Applications

Serban Nacu, Rebecca Critchley-Thorne, Peter Lee and Susan Holmes, Gene Expression Network Analysis and Applications to Immunology, Bioinformatics, 23, 850-858 (2007): html.
Dana Porrat, David Tse and Serban Nacu, Channel Uncertainty in Ultra Wideband Communication Systems, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 53:1, 194-208 (2007): pdf.
Rebecca Critchley-Thorne, Ning Yan, Serban Nacu, Jeffrey Weber, Susan Holmes and Peter Lee, Inhibition of Interferon Signaling in Lymphocytes in Metastatic Melanoma Patients, PLoS Medicine, 4:5 (2007): html.
Deborah Gordon, Susan Holmes and Serban Nacu, The Short-term Regulation of Foraging in Harvester Ants, Behavioral Ecology, 19:1, 217-222 (2008): html.
Blair Beverly, Helen McLendon, Serban Nacu, Susan Holmes and Deborah Gordon, How Site Fidelity Leads to Individual Differences in the Foraging Activity of Harvester Ants, Behavioral Ecology, 20:3, 633-638 (2009): html.

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