Lei Li Wins Best Paper Award at ACM Conference

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Lei LiPh.D. student Lei Li won the “Best Student Paper” award at the ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB 2018) for his research paper titled “An Integer Linear Programming Solution for the Domain-Gene-Species Reconciliation Problem”, coauthored with his advisor Dr. Mukul Bansal. This paper introduces the first exact algorithm, based on integer linear programming, for solving an important NP-hard problem in comparative genomics. Congratulations Lei and Mukul for your outstanding accomplishment!