Computer Science graduate student Sushmita Roy contributed to a paper published in the journal Nature, an accomplishment that also landed her as the lead headline on UNM's home page. Sushmita worked on a summer internship with Prof. Manolis Kellis and his team at MIT. The team used comparative genomics to analyze the genomes of 12 fly species. Sushmita is one of the authors on the paper discussing that work, "Discovery of Functional Elements in 12 Drosophila Genomes Using Evolutionary Signatures."
Her internship was sponsored by the Program in Interdisciplinary Biological and Biomedical Sciences (PIBBS) at UNM and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Interfaces program, and arranged by Microbial Sequencing Center Director Bruce Birren (MIT) and Professor Margaret Werner-Washburne (UNM Biology).
Sushmita earned her Master's from the department in 2005 and is currently working on her PhD with Professor Werner-Washburne and Computer Science
Join us Wednesday, Febuary 20th at 4pm in Farris Engineering Center (FEC) 141 for barbeque as faculty discuss their research and current graduate students demo their work. Find out more about it with this flyer (PDF).
Related links: Flyer (PDF); Maps and Directions to Farris; Prospective Graduate Students page
UNM CS graduate Dino Dai Zovi was highlighted on SearchSecurity.com as a security researcher worth watching. Dino, who received his Bachelor's (with departmental honors) in 2002, discovered a Java-based vulnerability in QuickTime to win a $10,000 prize in the CanSecWest MacBook Pro hacking contest. The vulnerability, which affects both Windows and Mac Quicktime, was disclosed responsibly to Apple and has been patched.
Our congratulations to Dino!
Related links: Dino Dai Zovi's web site; SearchSecurity.com; CanSecWest; Apple Quicktime 7.1.6 security update; ZDNet Zero Day Blog Entry
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