Zia Khan

Office: Carl Icahn Building 231

Email:
(1st initial)(last name) (at) cs.princeton.edu
Mailing Address:
Zia Khan
Computer Science Department
Princeton University
35 Olden St
Princeton, NJ 08540-5233

Research Interests

I am interested in research problems at the intersection of computer science and biology. My research advisors are Leonid Kruglyak and Mona Singh. My current research focus is computational biology. I am a grad student in the Quantitative and Computational Biology Program.

Background

I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA with a B.S. in Biology and a B.S. in Computer Science in May 2002. I was a Research Scientist 1 in Georgia Tech's   College of Computing in Atlanta, GA between July 2002 and August 2004 where I worked closely with Tucker Balch and Frank Dellaert. In May 2005, I joined Sarnoff Corporation as an intern and, subsequently, an algorithms developer. After almost two years at Sarnoff, I decided to head to graduate school. I am currently a second year Ph. D. student at Princeton University. I live in historic Jersey City, NJ near the great city of New York, NY.

I am looking for internship opportunities (and eventually a faculty job) in the Tri-State area (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut) within a train ride distance to New York City, please download my resume.

Publications

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Conference

Technical Reports

Teaching

I was a teaching assistant for Computational Biology at Carnegie Mellon University during the spring of 2000 and spring of 2001. I was a teaching assistant for the Princeton Integrated Science Program during the 2007-2008 school year.

Service

I have served as a reviewer for the following journals:

Misc.

My favorite peice of music is the chaconne...... from Bach's Solo violin partita No. 2. I also enjoy contemporary ballet and opera. I gave up my motorcycle, an SV650, for life in New York and graduate school. I plan on buying another when I'm finished. In the mean time, watching the MotoGP and Formula 1 will do.