Computational Methods for Paleogenomics and Comparative Genomics

The IRMACS Center at Simon Fraser University


Cedric Chauve

Professor, Department of Mathematics, SFU.

Email: cedric.chauve [at] sfu.ca.



Current members



Fang Zhang.

PhD student, MADD_Gen program, SFU (co-supervised with Leonid Chindelevitch).


Nina Luhmann.

PhD student, Didy Graduate program, Bielefeld University (co-supervised with Jens Stoye and Roland Wittler).


Ehsan Haghshenas

PhD student, MADD_Gen program, SFU (co-supervised with Cenk Sahinalp and Faraz Hach).


Nicole Althermeler.

Visiting PhD student, Didy Graduate program, Bielefeld University (co-supervised in Vancouver with Leonid Chindelevitch).


Markus Lux

Visiting PhD student, Didy Graduate program, Bielefeld University (co-supervised in Vancouver with Ryan Brinkman).


Alice Yue.

MSc student, MADD_Gen program, SFU (co-supervised with Ryan Brinkman).


Aniket Mane

MSc student, Department of Mathematics.


Stanley Guo

MSc student, MADD_Gen program, SFU (co-supervised with Leonid Chindelevitch).


Akbar Rafiey

MSc student, Department of Mathematics, SFU (co-supervised with Jan Manuch and Ladislav Stacho).


Sean La

NSERC USRA, SFU.



Recently departed members.




Jonathan Mendes de Almeida

MITACS Globalink intern.


Yoann Anselmetti.

Visiting PhD student, University of Montpellier.


Julien Courtiel

PIMS-CNRS Postdoctoral fellow, PIMS (co-supervised with Marni Mishna and Yann Ponty).


Koen van Greevenbroek

BSc intern, Department of Mathematics, SFU.


Beryl Zhuang

MSc intern, Bioinformatics Training Program for Health Research (co-supervised with Will Hsiao).


Ashok Rajaraman

PhD student, Department of Mathematics, SFU.


Bradley Jones

MSc student, Department of Mathematics, SFU (co-supervised with Karen Yeats).


Joao Paulo Pereira Zanetti.

Visiting PhD student, University of Campinas (September 2013-July 2014).


Daniel Doerr.

Visiting PhD student, University of Bielefeld (January-April 2014).


Jake Turner

Undergraduate intern (NSERC USRA, summer 2014), Department of Mathematics, SFU (co-supervised with Tamon Stephen).


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