Home Department: Mathematical & Computational Science
Supported by: Stanford University Dean of Research Office
Mentor: Noah Rosenberg, Biology

Alan’s research focuses on improving methods for making inferences about evolutionary trees—which appear in many areas of biology, from tracing epidemics to understanding cell lineages in tumors. Specifically, Alan is utilizing probabilistic models and mathematical structures and tools to provide novel insights into the genealogical histories of lineages sampled across closely related species.

Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 24, 2016:

Bounds on the Number of Loci Required for All Splits of a Species Tree to Appear in a Set of Gene Trees

Alan J. Aw¹, Rohan S. Mehta², Lawrence H. Uricchio², David Bryant³, Noah A. Rosenberg²
[Departments of Mathematical & Computational Science¹ and Biology², Stanford University; Department of Mathematics & Statistics³, University of Otago, New Zealand]