PHOTO My name is Jaroslaw "Jaric" Zola. I am a postdoctoral researcher with Srinivas Aluru in Iowa State Univeristy. In this page you can find some information about me and the subjects that I am interested in.

My Erdos number is 4 (thanks to Denis Trystram and Srinivas Aluru).

My favourite reflection (is by Paul Valery):

Ce qui est simple est toujours faux.
Ce qui ne l'est pas est inutilisable.

And my favourite quote (is by Prof. Richard Dawkins):

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in.
Some of us just go one god further.




I received M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Czestochowa University of Technology (Poland) and Ph.D degree from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (France) in 2001 and 2005, respectively. In 2006 I joined Iowa State University, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where I work to date. My research activities are focused on applications of high performance computing in bioinformatics and computational biology with special emphasis on systems biology, multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic inference. In my work I combine efficient algorithmic solutions with high quality software implementations to provide scalable frameworks, that can be run on modern parallel architectures, including MPPs and multi/many cores. I am a founding co-chair of Workshop on Parallel Computational Biology (PBC), a biennial event devoted to latest research in high performance computational biology, accompanying the PPAM conference. I am a member of Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and IEEE Computer Society, Association for the Computing Machinery (ACM), as well as International Society for Computational Biology.

Visit Resources to download the most recent versions of my software, including Parallel TCoffee.

15 Nov 2009 17:23 Update I made several updates in the resources section. The most important change affects md-rsnap.
26 Oct 2009 12:07 2nd Workshop on Emerging Parallel Architectures (WEPA) I am in the Program Committee of the 2nd Workshop on Emerging Parallel Architectures (WEPA) held in conjuction with ICCS 2010. You are welcome to submit a paper!
27 Aug 2009 19:50 Yet Another New Address Beginning Thursday, 27 August I will be residing in Durham. My new office is 349 Durham Center.
30 May 2009 15:18 Update Finally I have found some time to update this web page.
21 Apr 2009 14:13 CUDI 2009 I will be giving a keynote talk during CUDI 2009 meeting in Puebla, Mexico.
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