John D Eblen

In 1999, I graduated from The University of Tennessee Knoxville with a double major in computer science and mathematics. In 2001, I received my MS in computer science under the direction of Dr. Michael Berry. After a short time in industry, I returned and joined Dr. Michael Langston's research team as a PhD candidate, where I currently work as a graduate research assistant. I am interested in all things related to computer science, from low-level programming and software engineering to theoretical topics such as graph theory and complexity theory. At the moment, my research focuses on applying graph-theoretic tools to problems in computational biology. See below for more details.

Current Research Projects

• Creating and implementing new methods to cluster biological data based on the maximum clique problem from graph theory
• Creating and implementing new preprocessing and branching algorithms for maximum clique and related problems
• Expanding the above software to operate effectively in parallel on supercomputers

Current Personal Projects

• Learning scheme and functional programming in general.
• Studying the recently released source code for the 1971 Busicom 141-PF calculator available at www.4004.com