Steering Committee

• Aidong Zhang, State University of New York at Buffalo, Chair
• Vasant Honavar, Penn State University, Conference Director

General Chairs

• Pierre Baldi, University of California, Irvine
• Wei Wang, University of California, Los Angeles

Program Chairs

• Terry Gaasterland, University of California, San Diego
• Ümit V. Çatalyürek, The Ohio State University
• Bruce Schatz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Workshop Chair

• Tamer Kahveci, University of Florida

Tutorial Chairs

• Vasant Honavar, Penn State University
• Amarda Shehu, George Mason University

Poster Chairs

• Yu-Ping Wang, Tulane University
• Dongxiao Zhu, Wayne State University

PHD Forum Chair:

Jean Gao, University of Texas at Arlington

Translational Bioinformatics Panel Chairs

• Orly Alter, University of Utah
• May D. Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology

Women in Bioinformatics Panel Chair

• May D. Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology

Exhibit/System Demo Chair

• Richard Lathrop, University of California, Irvine

Registration Chair

• Preetam Ghosh, Virginia Commonwealth University

Proceedings Chair

• Jing Gao, State University of New York at Buffalo
• Xinghua Mindy Shi, University of North Carolina

Industry Chairs

• Anastasia Christianson, Bristol-Myers Squibb
• Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, IBM Almaden
• Bharat Rao, Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics, LLP

Publicity Chair

• Jianlin Jack Cheng, University of Missouri, Columbia

Local Arrangement Chairs:

• Xiaohui Xie, University of California, Irvine
• Janet Ko, University of California, Irvine

Student Travel Award Chair:

• Catie Welsh, Rhodes College

Web Masters:

• Kang Li, State University of New York at Buffalo
• Xiaowei Jia, State University of New York at Buffalo