Title: Professor in the Department of Computer Science
Groups: Principal Investigator
Amarda Shehu
Professor in the Department of Computer Science
Affiliate Appointments in the Department of Bioengineering and
School of Systems Biology
Ph.D. Rice University 2008
email: amarda{AT}cs.gmu.edu
web: www.cs.gmu.edu/~ashehu
Dr. Amarda Shehu is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University. She holds affiliated appointments in the School of Systems Biology and the Department of Bioengineering at George Mason University. She received her B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY in 2002 and her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rice University in Houston, TX in 2008, where she was an NIH fellow of the Nanobiology Training Program of the Gulf Coast Consortia. Shehu’s research contributions are in computational structural biology, biophysics, and bioinformatics with a focus on issues concerning the relationship between sequence, structure, dynamics, and function in biological molecules. Her research on probabilistic search and optimization algorithms for protein structure modeling is supported by various NSF programs, including Intelligent Information Systems, Computing Core Foundations, and Software Infrastructure. Shehu is also the recipient of an NSF CAREER award and a Jeffress Memorial Trust Award.