Ph.D., Chair, Academic Programs Committee, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science Dr. Liliana Florea is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the George Washington University, with specialty in Bioinformatics. Prior to joining the George Washington University in 2005 she was a Senior Scientist at Celera Genomics and Applied Biosystems. Her research and interests revolve around applying sequence analysis techniques to genome comparison, automatic gene annotation, comparative genomics, analysis of alternative splicing and its regulation, and computational vaccine design. Dr. Florea is the principal developer of a program for aligning expressed DNA and genomic sequences, Sim4, widely used in the bioinformatics community. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Penn State University.     801 22nd ST, NW Suite T720B Washington, DC 20052 Fax:202-994-4875 ibe@gwu.edu