Professor of Computer Science
Ph.D. 1984 (applied mathematics), Harvard; M.S. 1980 (computer and information science), Syracuse; B.S. 1977 (engineering and applied science), Yale.

Email:

Personal Homepage: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/shasha/

Research Interests:

Pattern discovery in biology, chemistry, and linguistics; software to support nonlinear text creation especially for complex documents such as laws and strategies; the design and tuning of large database systems; data mining in financial and environmental databases; puzzles and mathematical thought.

Affiliations:

ACM, IEEE.

Fellowships/Honors:

Coeditor-in-Chief of Information Systems (North-Holland) grants received from the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research.

Selected Works:

Pattern Discovery in Biomolecular Data: Tools, Techniques, and Applications, with Jason Wang and Bruce Shapiro, Eds. Oxford University Press. November 1999.

Tuning Time Series Queries in Finance: case studies and recommendations. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin. July 1999.

Software available to the community: Approximate Graph Subisomorphism.
Approximate Tree Pattern Matching, with Kaizhong Zhang. Pattern Matching in Strings, Trees, and Arrays, ed. A. Apostolico and Z. Galil.

Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists, with Cathy Lazere. Springer-Verlag. 1995.

Database Tuning: A Principled Approach. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1992.

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