Bansal, Mukul

Mukul Bansal

Associate Professor, School of Computing

Email mukul.bansal@uconn.edu
Phone (860) 486-2572
Mailing Address University of Connecticut 371 Fairfield Way, Unit 4155 Storrs, CT 06269-4155
Campus Storrs
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Brief Bio

I am an associate professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Connecticut. My research interests are in computational biology and bioinformatics, with an emphasis on computational phylogenetics and comparative genomics. More generally, I am interested in algorithms and combinatorial optimization. I lead the computational biology research group where we develop new computational methods, efficient algorithms, and powerful software tools to help answer fundamental biological questions.

  • Inferring gene family and genome evolution through gene duplication, horizontal transfer, and loss.
  • Understanding tumor evolution and inferring tumor phylogenies.
  • Understanding and modeling evolution at the subgene/domain level.
  • Reconstructing highly accurate gene trees for evolutionary and functional genomic studies.
  • Inferring infectious disease transmission networks.
  • Building whole-genome and multi-locus species phylogenies.