Gad Landau

Gad M. Landau

Gad M. Landau
Born (1954-09-24) 24 September 1954
Israel
Nationality Israel
Fields Theoretical computer science
Institutions University of Haifa
NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering
Alma mater Tel-Aviv University
Thesis String matching in erroneous input (1987)
Doctoral advisor Uzi Vishkin
Doctoral students Dina Sokol
Michal Ziv-Ukelson
Danny Hermelin
Known for k-differences problem
incremental sequence alignment

Gad Menahem Landau (born 1954) is an Israeli computer scientist noted for his contributions to combinatorial pattern matching and string algorithms and is the founding department chair of the Computer Science Department at the University of Haifa.

He has coauthored over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers.[1][2]

Academic background

Landau received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University in 1987. From 1988 to the present he has held positions as Assistant, Associate, and Research Professor at Polytechnic University in New York (now called NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, New York University). In 1995, Landau joined the faculty of the University of Haifa, where he founded the Department of Computer Science and was the first department head. In 2006, Landau was promoted to his current position of full Professor at the University of Haifa. Throughout his years in New York and Haifa, he has supervised over 20 graduate and post-doctoral students; many of whom are currently active researchers with permanent academic positions.

Research

Landau's research interests focus on string algorithms, data structures, computational biology, and parallel computation. He has made several profound contributions to these areas, even in the early days of his scientific career. His Ph.D. thesis, supervised by Prof. Uzi Vishkin, includes the fundamental text-book solution for the k-differences problem,[3][4] solving one of the major open problems in the area at the time. His solution was the first to combine suffix trees and lowest common ancestor queries, and has since inspired many extensions of this technique to other problems.

The footprints of Landau's research can be found in almost every subarea of string algorithms, including his foundational work on dynamic programming algorithms for the edit distance[5] problem, his numerous papers on modeling digitized images and 2D matching,[6] incremental sequence alignment,[7][8][9] and recently, his work on jumbled pattern matching[10] and compressed text[11][12][13] algorithms. He was instrumental in the application of pattern matching techniques to the area of computational biology, working on problems in several diverse areas such as DNA and RNA comparison,[14][15] clustering,[16] haplotype inference,[17] protein secondary structure prediction,[18] and tandem repeats.[19]

Landau's research has been continually funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Israel Science Foundation, and the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation. He received the IBM Faculty award, and was awarded funding from the DFG and Yahoo!. Landau co-chaired the International Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching in both 2001[20] and 2008.[21] He serves on the editorial board of Journal of Discrete Algorithms, and served as a guest editor for TCS and Discrete Applied Mathematics. He has served on numerous program committees for international conferences, most recently, International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications (LATA), International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE), International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC), Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM), Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI), International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (IWOCA), and Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics (BSB).

Academic activities

Landau has been an active member on academic committees, including committees that advise and supervise the academic activity in newly founded computer science departments in Israel. He founded several academic projects at the University of Haifa, most notably the Etgar undergraduate program for highly talented high school students throughout the north of Israel. Apart from these, Landau was also involved in community and civic activities, and served as a member of the Haifa city council form 2008 until 2013.[22]

External links

References

  1. ↑ Gad Landau's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
  2. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  3. ↑ Landau, Gad M.; Vishkin, Uzi (1986). "Efficient String Matching with k Mismatches". Theor. Comput. Sci. 43: 239–249. doi:10.1016/0304-3975(86)90178-7.
  4. ↑ Gusfield, Dan (1997). "Chapter 9: More Applications of Suffix Trees , Chapter 12: Refining Core String Edits and Alignments". Algorithms on Strings, Trees, and Sequences - Computer Science and Computational Biology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-58519-8.
  5. ↑ Landau, Gad M.; Vishkin, Uzi (1988). "Fast String Matching with k Differences". J. Comput. Syst. Sci. 37 (1): 63–78. doi:10.1016/0022-0000(88)90045-1.
  6. ↑ Landau, Gad M.; Vishkin, Uzi (1994). "Pattern Matching in a Digitized Image". Algorithmica 12 (4/5): 375–408. doi:10.1007/BF01185433.
  7. ↑ Landau, Gad M.; Myers, Eugene W.; Schmidt, Jeanette P. (1998). "Incremental String Comparison". SIAM J. Comput. 27 (2): 557–582. doi:10.1137/S0097539794264810.
  8. ↑ Landau, Gad M.; Ziv-Ukelson, Michal (2001). "On the Common Substring Alignment Problem". J. Algorithms 41 (2): 338–359. doi:10.1006/jagm.2001.1191.
  9. ↑ Landau, Gad M.; Schieber, Baruch; Ziv-Ukelson, Michal (2003). "Sparse LCS Common Substring Alignment Matrices". Inf. Process. Lett. 88 (6): 259–270. doi:10.1016/j.ipl.2003.09.006.
  10. ↑ Gagie, Travis; Hermelin, Danny; Landau, Gad M.; Weimann, Oren (2013). "Binary Jumbled Pattern Matching on Trees and Tree-Like Structures". Algorithms - ESA - 21st Annual European Symposium: 517–528. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40450-4_44.
  11. ↑ Hermelin, Danny; Landau, Gad M.; Landau, Shir; Weimann, Oren (2013). "Unified Compression-Based Acceleration of Edit-Distance Computation". Algorithmica 65 (2): 339–353. doi:10.1007/s00453-011-9590-6.
  12. ↑ Crochemore, Maxime; Landau, Gad M.; Ziv-Ukelson, Michal (2003). "A Subquadratic Sequence Alignment Algorithm for Unrestricted Scoring Matrices". SIAM J. Comput. 32 (6): 1654–1673. doi:10.1137/S0097539702402007.
  13. ↑ Bille, Philip; Gortz, Inge Li; Landau, Gad M.; Weimann, Oren (2013). "Tree Compression with Top Trees". Automata, Languages, and Programming - 40th International Colloquium, ICALP: 160–171. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39206-1_14.
  14. ↑ Backofen, Rolf; Chen, Shihyen; Hermelin, Danny; Landau, Gad M.; Roytberg, Mikhail A.; Weimann, Oren; Zhang, Kaizhong (2007). "Locality and Gaps in RNA Comparison". Journal of Computational Biology 14 (8): 1074–1087. doi:10.1089/cmb.2007.0062.
  15. ↑ Amit, Mika; Backofen, Rolf; Heyne, Steffen; Landau, Gad M.; Mohl, Mathias; Otto, Christina; Will, Sebastian (2014). "Local Exact Pattern Matching for Non-Fixed RNA Structures". IEEE/ACM Trans. Comput. Biology Bioinform. 11 (1): 219–230. doi:10.1109/TCBB.2013.2297113.
  16. ↑ Eres, Revital; Landau, Gad M.; Parida, Laxmi (2003). "A Combinatorial Approach to Automatic Discovery of Cluster-Patterns". Algorithms in Bioinformatics, Third International Workshop, WABI: 139–150. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-39763-2_11.
  17. ↑ Fellows, Michael R.; Hartman, Tzvika; Hermelin, Danny; Landau, Gad M.; Rosamond, Frances A.; Rozenberg, Liat (2011). "Haplotype Inference Constrained by Plausible Haplotype Data". IEEE/ACM Trans. Comput. Biology Bioinform. 8 (6): 1692–1699. doi:10.1109/TCBB.2010.72.
  18. ↑ Backofen, Rolf; Landau, Gad M.; Mohl, Mathias; Tsur, Dekel; Weimann, Oren (2011). "Fast RNA structure alignment for crossing input structures". J. Discrete Algorithms 9 (1): 2–11. doi:10.1016/j.jda.2010.07.004.
  19. ↑ Landau, Gad M.; Schmidt, Jeanette P.; Sokol, Dina (2001). "An Algorithm for Approximate Tandem Repeats". Journal of Computational Biology 8 (1): 1–18. doi:10.1089/106652701300099038.
  20. ↑ Amir, Amihood; Landau, Gad M., eds. (2001). Combinatorial Pattern Matching, 12th Annual Symposium, Proceedings. Springer.
  21. ↑ Ferragina, Paolo; Landau, Gad M., eds. (2008). Combinatorial Pattern Matching, 19th Annual Symposium, Proceedings. Springer.
  22. ↑ http://he.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99%D7%AA_%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%94&oldid=15964007
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