Lila Kari

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Lila Kari
Portrait of Professor Lila Kari
CitizenshipRomanian; Canadian
Alma materUniversity of Bucharest, University of Turku
Known forBiocomputing, DNA computing
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Academic advisorsArto Salomaa
Websitehttps://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~lila/

Lila Kari (née Sântean) is a Romanian and Canadian computer scientist, professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Biography

Professor Kari earned a master's degree at the University of Bucharest in 1987, studying there with Gheorghe Păun, and then moved to the University of Turku in Finland for her graduate studies, earning a Ph.D. in 1991 under the supervision of Arto Salomaa.[1][2] She came to the University of Western Ontario as a visiting professor in 1993, and by 1996 had been hired there as a tenure-track faculty member.[2][3] In 2017 she accepted a position of professor of computer science and University Research Chair at the University of Waterloo.

Research

Kari's thesis research was in

Turing complete.[3] Her more recent research has studied issues of nondeterminism and undecidability in self-assembly,[6] as well as studies of biodiversity informatics, such as proposing alignment-free methods based on Chaos Game Representation of DNA genomic sequences to identify and classify species.[7]
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Awards and honors

Kari won the Rolf Nevanlinna doctoral thesis award for the best Finnish mathematics doctoral thesis in 1991.[9] [10] From 2002 to 2011, she held a Canada Research Chair in Biocomputing.[11]

References

  1. ^ Lila Kari at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ a b "Biography", Journal of Universal Computer Science, archived from the original on 2020-07-22
  3. ^ a b "Biocomputing researcher awarded the Bucke Prize", Western News, University of Western Ontario, March 21, 2002.
  4. ^ "Careers in Nanobiotechnology: Through the Eyes of a Mathematician", Science Careers, February 2, 2001, archived from the original on 2011-08-21
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  9. ^ "The Rolf Nevanlinna doctoral thesis award". Archived from the original on June 23, 2007. Retrieved February 22, 2012.
  10. ^ Hamalainen, Anna-Liisa (December 1992), "Tytto joka haluaa kaiken" (PDF), Kodin Kuvalehti (in Finnish): 22–24
  11. ^ "Canada Research Chairs: Lila Kari". Archived from the original on May 8, 2014. Retrieved February 22, 2012.

External links

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