Yana Safonova

Work experience

2023–present Assistant Professor. Computer Science and Engineering Department, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Penn State University, State College, USA.
2021–2023. Assistant Professor. Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
2019–2021. AAI Collaborative Postdoctoral Fellow. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, USA. Advisor: Corey T. Watson.
2017–2021. Postdoctoral Scholar. Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of California San Diego, San Diego, USA. Scientific advisor: Pavel A. Pevzner.

2012–2017. Ph.D. in Bioinformatics. Center for Algorithmic Biotechnology, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Scientific advisor: Pavel A. Pevzner.

PhD thesis "Application of graph models to bioinformatics analysis of hypervariable biological sequences" [PDF, English version: pp. 72–134].

2006–2012. B.Sc. & M.Sc. in Computer Science. Institute of Information Technology, Mathematics and Mechanics, Lobachevsky State University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

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