Kevin Karplus

Infobox Scientist


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name = Kevin John Karplus
birth_date = 30 Nov 1954
birth_place = Chicago, IL
residence = Santa Cruz, CA
nationality = USA
field = Computer Science
work_institution = University of California, Santa Cruz
alma_mater = Stanford University
doctoral_advisor = Jeff Ullman
doctoral_students = Habib Krit, Soren Soe, Christian Barrett, Rachel Karchin, Firas Khatib
known_for = Karplus-Strong string synthesis, protein structure prediction particularly success in CASP
prizes = Excellence in Teaching Award (UCSC Senate, 2004)

Kevin Karplus is a professor at University of California, Santa Cruz, currently in the Biomolecular Engineering Department.

He is probably best known for work he did as a computer science graduate student at Stanford University on the Karplus-Strong string synthesis algorithm.

He taught VLSI design and computer engineering for several years, helping create the Computer Engineering Department at University of California, Santa Cruz. He made some contributions to VLSI CAD, particularly to logic minimization, where he invented the if-then-else DAG (a generalization of the binary decision diagram) and a canonical form for it, before switching to protein structure prediction and bioinformatics in 1995.

He has participated in CASP (Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction) since CASP2 in 1996, and has been invited to present papers at CASP2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.

External links

* [http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~karplus Home page for Kevin Karplus]
* [http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~karplus/papers/paper-list.html List of published papers]
* [http://www.scienceboard.net/community/spotlights.58.html Science Advisory Board bio]