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I'm a PhD student under supervision of Prof. Shlomo Moran in the CS Department, Technion, Haifa, Israel.

My current research concentrates on reconstruction of evolutionary (phylogenetic) trees. I am studying algorithmic and applicative aspects, as well as issues of computational complexity.

I finished my M.Sc. degree in the bioinformatics track of the Mathematics and CS Department at The Weizmann Institute under supervision of Prof. Ehud Shapiro. We devised computational models and algorithms for optimizing synthesis of long DNA molecules, and gene families (under patent approval).

Other Areas of Interest

· Theory of computation

· Genomics and algorithms in computational biology

Publications

· Ilan Gronau, Shlomo Moran, and Irad Yavneh, " Towards Optimal Distance Functions for Stochastic Substitutions Models", (pdf) (submitted March, 2009) (BibTex)

- A note on Bayesian optimization of distance functions (Technion technical report CS-2009-06) (pdf)

· Ilan Gronau, Shlomo Moran, and Sagi Snir, "Fast and Reliable Reconstruction of Phylogenetic Trees with Very Short Edges", In SODA: ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, pp 379 – 388, 2008. (pdf) (full version draft) (updated 17-1-08) (BibTex)

– journal version (submitted 13.3.08)

· Ilan Gronau and Shlomo Moran, "Neighbor joining algorithms for inferring phylogenies via LCA-distances", Journal of Computational Biology 14(1), pp 1 – 15, 2007. (corrected June, 2007) (pdf) (tech-report) (BibTex)

· Ilan Gronau and Shlomo Moran, "Optimal Implementations of UPGMA and Other Common Clustering Algorithms", Information Processing Letters 104(6), pp 205 – 210, 2007. (pdf) (BibTex)

· Ilan Gronau and Shlomo Moran, "On The Hardness of Inferring Phylogenies from Triplet-Dissimilarities", Theoretical Computer Science 389(1-2), pp 44 – 55, 2007. (pdf) (BibTex)