Scholar
Manuel Lafond
Google Scholar ID: O2xit3MAAAAJ
Université de Sherbrooke
Citations & Impact
Citations
650
H-index
14
i10-index
26
Publications
20
Co-authors
46
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Contact
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Publication: 'Recognizing k-leaf powers in polynomial time, for constant k', SODA 2022
- Publication: 'Computing the Tandem Duplication Distance is NP-Hard', SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (2022)
- Publication: 'Colorful orthology clustering in bounded-degree similarity graphs', Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (2021)
- Publication: 'Accurate prediction of orthologs in the presence of divergence after duplication', Bioinformatics (2018)
- Participation in multiple international conference program committees
Background
- Currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Université de Sherbrooke, with a research focus on bioinformatics algorithms, particularly on theoretical aspects of problems arising in computational biology. Interested in the development of models and algorithms for evolution, which can be applied to reconstruct phylogenies, infer important evolutionary events such as gene duplication or horizontal gene transfer, and predict orthologous/paralogous genes. Also an avid follower (and occasional contributor) of the theory of algorithms.
Miscellany
- Personal interests include applying the latest developments in parameterized and approximation algorithms to practical problems in computational biology, and believes that biology can assist the development of algorithms.
