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Bernard Moret
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Laboratory for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
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Professor
PhD (U. Tennessee, 1980)
nationality: US and Swiss dual citizen
web site: http://lcbb.epfl.ch
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office(s):
INJ230
phone(s): [+41 21 69] 31391,31394,35637
fax: +41216937555
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BIOGRAPHY
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Bernard M.E. Moret was born in Vevey, Switzerland, received baccalauréats in Latin-Greek and Latin-Mathematics, then did a Diploma in Electrical Engineering at EPFL. After working for 2 years for Omega and Swiss Timing on the development of real-time OS for sports applications, he left for the US. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the U. of Tennessee in 1980 and joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico (UNM) that fall. He served as Chairman of the department from 1991 till 1993 and eventually retired in summer 2006 to join the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL. (You can read about his work at UNM on his (archived) personal and laboratory web pages at UNM.) He was also appointed group leader for phylogenetics at the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics (SIB). Since 2009, he is also in charge of the BS and MS programs in Computer Science.
He founded the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics (JEA) and served as its Editor-in-Chief for 7 years; he also helped found the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), where he served as Associate Editor until 2008. He founded the annual Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI) and chairs its steering committee, and he serves on the steering committee of the Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX). Until summer 2008, he chaired the Biodata Management and Analysis (BDMA) study section of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH); now he is a charter member of the NIH College of Reviewers. He led a team of over 50 biologists, computer scientists, and mathematicians in the CIPRES (Cyber Infrastructure for Phylogenetic Research) project, funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) for US$ 12 million over 5 years. He has published around 100 papers in computational biology in the last 11 years, under funding from the US NSF, the Alfred P. Sloan foundation, the IBM Corporation, the US NIH, the Swiss NSF, and SystemsX.ch. His Erdős number is 2.
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PUBLICATIONS
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For a list of Prof. Moret's publications, see his Google Scholar Citations.
For publications authored by members and affiliates of the LCBB while working in the LCBB, see here.
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CURRENT WORK
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His main research interests are algorithm design and high-performance algorithm engineering, particularly as they apply to computational biology and bioinformatics. Current projects include:- Models of genome evolution and algorithms for their use in phylogenetic reconstruction and comparative genomics.
- Models of reticulate evolution and algorithms for their use in phylogenetic reconstruction.
- Fast and accurate algorithms for large-scale (Tree of Life) phylogenetic reconstruction.
- Models and algorithms to study the evolution of regulatory networks.
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CURRENT INT'L DUTIES
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- Chair, Steering Committee for Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI).
- Chair, NIH review panel for the National Centers for Biomedical Computing competition.
- Member, Steering Committee for SIAM Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX)
- (Charter) Member, NIH College of Reviewers.
- Member, Program Committees for:
13th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments ALENEX'11 (San Francisco), 5th IEEE Conf. Bioinformatics & Biomedicine BIBM'11 (Atlanta), 15th Conf. on Research in Comput. Mol. Bio. RECOMB'11 (Vancouver, Canada), 9th RECOMB Workshop on Comparative Genomics RECOMB-CG'11 (Galway, Ireland), 11th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics WABI'11 (Saarbrücken, Germany).
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CONFERENCE CALENDAR
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For a list of upcoming conferences in my area, see here.
For a comparison of the impact of the various conferences
in bioinformatics and computational biology, see here.
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Full Professor 