Prof. Jake Chen is an assistant professor of Informatics (Indiana University) and Computer Science (Purdue) at Indiana University ¨C Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana. He is an IEEE senior member, the founding director of the new Indiana Center for Systems Biology and Personalized Medicine (http://bio.informatics.iupui.edu/CSBPM/), and members of Indiana University¡¯s Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Cancer Center, Center for Bio-computing, and Center for Environmental Health. He received PhD/MS degrees in computer science from the University of Minnesota at Twin Cities and a BS degree in molecular biology and biochemistry from Peking University, China. In the past decade, he worked at Affymetrix, Inc., CA, to develop early commercial GeneChip products and headed a computational proteomics team at Myriad Proteomics, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT to map the first ¡°human protein interactome¡±. After joining Academia in 2004, he has published widely in bioinformatics including most recently an edited book--Biological Database Modeling. He is active in faculty entrepreneurship, helping to co-found several Indiana biotech startups and non-profit organizations. His current research interests include: biological data management, semantic webs, data mining, network and systems biology, and translational biomedical applications.

Tentative Title

Developing Tools for Translational Bioinformatics Applications