I am an assistant professor of bioinformatics in the Computer Science Department at the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA. I am developing computational methods to predict protein structures from sequences. I developed MULTICOM - a protein structure prediction software that was ranked among the best methods in template-based modeling, template-free modeling, protein model quality assessment, protein disorder prediction, protein residue-residue contact prediction and protein domain boundary prediction during the Eighth Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (CASP8), 2008.