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Bio

Assistant Professor, School of Computingand Informatics; Ira A.Fulton School of Engineering; and Department of Biomedical Informatics, Biomedicine@ASU

Bio

Valentin Dinu joined ASU in 2007. He holds a PhD in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics from Yale University andan AB in Mathematics and Physics from Harvard University. He also worked in industry as a quantitative financial modeler, software engineer and consultant.

Expertise

• Biomedical informatics.
• Translational research.
• Integrativedisease association analysis.
• Genome wide association studies.
• Entity-attribute-value database modeling.

Education

2007, Ph.D., Yale University

Research Interests

Valentin Dinu's research interests are the assessment, improvement, and development of computational approaches, software applications and databases that will facilitate the management, integration and analysis of diverse sources of biomedical information. Some of Valentin Dinu's teaching and research areas include 1) the use of biological domain knowledge to supplement statistical analysis and data mining methods to identify genes and pathways associated with disease, and 2) the exploration of database modeling approaches for managing large and heterogeneous data sets from both clinical and biosciences domains. Application domains include next generation sequencing (NGS), genome wide association studies (GWAS), and immunosignature protein arrays. More at http://www.dinulab.org

Awards

Excellence in Teaching Award (1999)

Magna Cum Laude with Highest Honors college graduate (2000)

PhD funded by National Library of Medicine Biomedical Informatics Training Grant (2004-2007)

ASU/Mayo Clinic Partnership for Collaborative Research Seed Grant Award (2010)