Jaroslaw Zola
Computational Biology - can we do without parallel processing?.- Jaroslaw Zola (Iowa State University)

Received his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Czestochowa University of Technology (Poland) and Ph.D. degree from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (France) in 2001 and 2005, respectively. In 2006 he joined Iowa State University where he works as a reasearcher in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Research activities of Dr. Zola are focused on applications of high performance computing in bioinformatics and computational biology with special emphasis on systems biology, multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic inference. He developed, or was involved in the development of, widely used parallel bioinformatics tools such as Parallel T-Coffee or RAxML. He is a founding co-chair of Workshop on Parallel Computational Biology (PBC), a biennial event devoted to latest research in high performance computational biology, accompanying the PPAM conference. Dr. Zola is a member of Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and IEEE Computer Society, as well as Association for the Computing Machinery (ACM).