Sze, Sing-Hoi
individual record
Associate Professor - Term Appoint
Positions:
- Associate Professor - Term Appoint, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
overview
Our work focuses on the application of computational techniques to solve problems in biology. Current research projects cover diverse areas in computational biology, including multiple sequence alignment, motif finding with applications to predicting transcription factor binding sites, biological network analysis, and identification of gene clusters within genomes.
education and training
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Southern California - (Los Angeles, California, United States) 2000
- M.S. in Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University - (State College, Pennsylvania, United States) 1995
- B.S. in Computer Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong - (Shatin, Hong Kong, China) 1990
selected publications
Academic Articles44
- Zhang, M., Cui, Y., Liu, Y., Xu, W., Sze, S., Murray, S. C., Xu, S., & Zhang, H. (2020). Accurate prediction of maize grain yield using its contributing genes for gene-based breeding.. Genomics. 112(1), 225-236.
- Pimsler, M. L., Sze, S., Saenz, S., Fu, S., Tomberlin, J. K., & Tarone, A. M. (2019). Gene expression correlates of facultative predation in the blow fly Chrysomya rufifacies (Diptera: Calliphoridae).. Ecology and Evolution. 9(15), 8690-8701.
- Zhu, Z., Rehman, K. U., Yu, Y., Liu, X., Wang, H., Tomberlin, J. K., ... Zheng, L. (2019). De novo transcriptome sequencing and analysis revealed the molecular basis of rapid fat accumulation by black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens, L.) for development of insectival biodiesel.. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 12(1), 194.
- Zhang, Y. u., Pechal, J. L., Schmidt, C. J., Jordan, H. R., Wang, W. W., Benbow, M. E., Sze, S., & Tarone, A. M. (2019). Machine learning performance in a microbial molecular autopsy context: A cross-sectional postmortem human population study.. PLoS ONE. 14(4), e0213829-e0213829.
- Song, J., Arif, M., Zhang, M., Sze, S., & Zhang, H. (2019). Phenotypic and molecular dissection of grain quality using the USDA rice mini-core collection.. Food Chemistry. 284, 312-322.
Chapters2
- Sze, S. (2016). Computational Approaches for Studying Alternative Splicing in Nonmodel Organisms from RNASEQ Data. Computational Methods for Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis. 287-299. Wiley.
- Sze, S. (2008). Recent Developments in Alignment and Motif Finding for Sequences and Networks. Bioinformatics Algorithms. 259-276. Wiley.
Conference Papers15
- Fu, S., Chang, P. L., Friesen, M. L., Teakle, N. L., Tarone, A. M., & Sze, S. (2019). Identifying similar transcripts in a related organism from de Bruijn graphs of RNA-Seq data, with applications to the study of salt and waterlogging tolerance in Melilotus. BMC GENOMICS. 20(Suppl 5), 425-1.
- Sze, S., Parrott, J. J., & Tarone, A. M. (2017). A divide-and-conquer algorithm for large-scale de novo transcriptome assembly through combining small assemblies from existing algorithms.. BMC GENOMICS. 18(Suppl 10), 895.
- Sze, S., & Tarone, A. M. (2013). A memory-efficient algorithm to obtain splicing graphs and de novo expression estimates from de bruijn graphs of RNA-seq data. 2013 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and medical Sciences (ICCABS). 1-1.
- Chen, J., Fan, J., & Sze, S. (2013). Parameterized and Approximation Algorithms for the MAF Problem in Multifurcating Trees. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science - 39th International Workshop, WG 2013, Lbeck, Germany, June 19-21, 2013, Revised Papers. 8165, 152-164.
- Chen, J., Liu, Y., Lu, S., Sze, S., & Zhang, F. (2012). Iterative Expansion and Color Coding: An Improved Algorithm for 3D-Matching. ACM Transactions on Algorithms. 8(1), 1-22.
researcher on
Co-Principal Investigator1
recent teaching activities
- BICH419 Cmptl Tech Evol Analy Instructor
- BICH491 Hnr-research Instructor
- BICH491 Research Instructor
- BICH628 Computational Biology Instructor
- BICH685 Directed Studies Instructor
chaired theses and dissertations
- Fu, Shuhua (2015-05). Genomic and Transcriptomic Studies on Non-Model Organisms. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Fan, Jia-Hao (2013-07). Cuts and Partitions in Graphs/Trees with Applications. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Zhao, Xiaoyan (2012-02). Improved Algorithms for Discovery of Transcription Factor Binding Sites in DNA Sequences. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Lu, Songjian (2010-07). Randomized and Deterministic Parameterized Algorithms and Their Applications in Bioinformatics. (Doctoral Dissertation)
Email
shsze@tamu.edu
First Name
Sing-Hoi
Last Name
Sze
mailing address
Texas A&M University; Computer Science & Engineering; 3112 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3112
USA