I'm a Ph.D. candidate in the Biomedical Informatics Program at Stanford University where I am advised by Serafim Batzoglou in the Computer Science Department. My current research is generally on novel approaches to biological and computational genomic problems.

Contact info: jesserod at cs dot stanford dot edu

Projects

Local ancestry inference

ALLOY is a fast and accurate method for local ancestry inference, which is the problem of labeling each position of the genome with an ancestral origin.

Publications

Posters

  • Automatic detection of metastatic cancer cells in the blood.
    Jesse M. Rodriguez, A. Powell, S. Jeffrey, S. Batzoglou, and D. Paik.
    ISMB, 2010.
  • GEDI: A sensitive method for detecting insertions and deletions with paired-end sequencing.
    Jesse M. Rodriguez, S. Kyriazopoulou-Panagiotopoulou, S. D. Guo, D. E. Newburger, and S. Batzoglou.
    RECOMB, 2010. Presented by S. Kyriazopoulou-Panagiotopoulou.
  • Does Trypsin Cut Before Proline?
    Jesse M. Rodriguez, N. Gupta, and P. A. Pevzner.
    55th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry, 2007.
  • Evidence for siRNA silencing as a mode of regulation of cis-antisense overlapping genes.
    Jesse M. Rodriguez and J. Kuhn.
    Algorithmic Biology Conference, 2006.
  • Bioinformatics and Microarray Analysis of Hormone Responses in Arabidopsis.
    Jesse M. Rodriguez.
    Nineteenth Annual UCSD Undergraduate Research Conference, 2006.

Education

  • 2007 B.S. from UCSD in Computer Science with a Specialization in Bioinformatics.
  • 2010 M.S. from Stanford in Biomedical Informatics.