Pedro Romero
Assistant Professor
- Phone
- 317-278-4101
- Office
- 719 Indiana Ave.
WK 308
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3103
Education
Ph.D. Computer Science, Washington State University, Pullman, WA (1999)
M.S.E. Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (1984)
Engineer. Chemical Engineering, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela (1981)
Biography
Pedro Romero joined the field of Bioinformatics in 1996, while at Washington State University. During his doctoral studies, he developed the first successful predictors of protein intrinsic disorder from amino acid sequence.
He spent four years as a postdoctoral fellow at SRI International, in Menlo Park, CA, working on the development and analysis of pathway-genome databases comprising the BioCyc resource. At SRI International he was involved in the development of pathway-genome databases for several organisms, including HumanCyc, which contain the first version of the human metabolic network predicted entirely from the human genome.
Dr. Romero is a member of the BioPathways Consortium, and was co-chair of the session on Genomes, Pathways and Interactions Bioinformatics at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing for 2001, 2002, and 2003. He joined the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at IUPUI as a visiting scientist prior to coming to the School of Informatics in Fall 2004.
Research Interests
- Machine learning techniques for the development of biological sequence-based predictors.
- Systems Biology implications of structural characteristics of proteins.
- Structural bases of protein evolution.
