Journal of Data Mining in Genomics & Proteomics

Julio C. Facelli

Biography

 Dr. Facelli was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and attended the University of Buenos Aires where he got his Ph.D in physics in 1982. In 1993 he did post-doctoral research at the University of Arizona and the following year he joined the University of Utah. At the University of Utah he was the Director of the Center for High Performance Computing from 1995 to 2013 and he is currently, Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Director of Biomedical Informatics, Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry and Physics and member of the Institute for Clean and Safe Energy and the Utah Nano Science Institutes. Dr. Facelli has been involved in numerous computer and network related research projects and in many University and national committees dealing with Information Technology. He has extensive expertise in computational sciences, parallel and distributed computing and advance network applications. Dr. Facelli is co-author of more than 190 international per review publications and his research has been funded by NSF, NIH and DOE. Dr. Facelli served as Chair of the Coalition for Scientific Computing (CASC) during 2003 and 2004. He is referee for numerous international publications and funding agencies and has participated in advisory panels at NSF and NIH. He has taught classes in Physics, Chemistry, Computational Sciences, Telecommunications and Medicine. His current research interest are in parallel and distributed computing applications in biomedical informatics. 

Research Interest

Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) of Pharmaceutical Drugs Distributed Information Systems for Clinical and Translational Research Informatics of Nanoscale Drug Delivery Systems for Cancer Treatment Protein Structure Prediction in Neurodegenerative Deceases Data Mining in Biomedical Informatics