Dr. Michael A. Langston

Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Tickle College of Engineering
University of Tennessee
Suite 401, Min H. Kao Building
1520 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-2250 USA
Phone: (865) 974-3534; Fax: (865) 974-4404
Email: langston "at" tennessee "dot" edu

Core Faculty
UT Graduate School in Genome Science and Technology

Data Science Faculty
UT Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education

Collaborating Scientist
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Langston Lab News: An Open Note to Prospective Students; Chen Wins Google Internship; GrAPPA Rebuild Continues Apace; Grady Defends Dissertation; Lab Wins Award for Multidisciplinary Research; Haoran Niu Graduates; New R Package Released; Paper Published on Molecular Subtyping and Outlier Detection; Paper Published on Network Controllability; Roberson Wins Siemens Internship
Information for Scientific Reviewers: An Enumeration of my Contributions to Science, Including Research Papers in Fields not Covered by Pubmed

Research and Software

Current Research Concentrations: Big Data Analytics, Combinatorial Optimization, Computer and Data Science,; Graph Theoretical Algorithms, High Performance Implementations,; Life Science Applications, Machine Learning, Statistical Software

Unclassified Research Projects: Analytics for Atmospheric Radiation Measurement; Augmenting Social Determinants of Health; Climate Change and Human Health; Chronic Kidney Disease; End-Stage Renal Disease; Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Dissemination; Pregnancy-Associated Mortality

Recently Completed Projects: Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease; Advanced Machine Design; Bioinformatics Centre; Biomarker Elucidation; Cerebellar Development; Efficient Pre-Processing; High Throughput Data Analysis; HPC and FPT; Interpreting Health Disparities; Low-Dose Radiation Genetics; Mouse Phenotype Analysis; Multi-Layer Network Modules; Multilevel Omics Data Analysis; Neurogenetics of Addiction; North Sea Historical Analysis; Ontological Discovery; Optimization and Metaheuristics; Reconfigurable Computing; Scalable Computing for Biology; Software Correctness; Systems Biology for R. Palustris; Unraveling Complex Diseases

Recent Software Releases: Biclique Enumeration; ClustalXP; EntropyExplorer; Gene Weaver; GrAPPA

Mentoring: Postdoctoral Associate; Current Students; Recent Graduates

Current Courses: CS 581, Algorithms; CS 594/690, Graph Theory

Recent Courses: CS 312, Algorithm Analysis and Automata; CS 380, Theory of Computation; CS 580, Foundations of Computer Science; CS 594, Algorithmic Methods for Bioinformatics; CS 594, Computation for Systems Biology; CS 594, Experimental Algorithmics; CS 594, Extremal Graph Theory; CS 594, Fixed-Parameter Tractability; CS 594/690, Graph Algorithms, Applications, and Implementations; CS 680, Special Topics in Graph Algorithms; LFSC 695, Journal Club in Computational Biology

Recent Service: Bertinoro Systems Biology Workshops; Math & Science Center; Ronald McNair Achievement Program

Additional Information: Biographical Data; Faculty Focus Article; Not So Recent Travel Photos; Selected Recent Publications; UT COE Annual Report 2013

Prized Quotes

"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room. Especially if there is no cat." --- Confucius, 551BC - 479BC

"Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be." --- Don Quixote, from The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547 - 1616

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." --- Hamlet, from The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark, by William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616

"All things are ready, if our mind be so." --- King Henry V, from Henry V, by William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt." --- Lucio, from Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616

"Rejecting theory as useless in order to work only on everyday things is like proposing to cut the roots of a tree because they do not carry fruit." --- Marquis de Condorcet, 1743 - 1794

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the principal difference between a dog and a man." --- Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910

"Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions." --- Winston Churchill, 1874 - 1965

"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." --- Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955

"If everything isn't black and white, I say 'Why the hell not?'" --- John Wayne, 1907 - 1979

"Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical." --- Yogi Berra, 1925 - 2015

"A man is never too old to learn, is it, Mr. Jonas?" --- Rhys Williams as Dai Bando in How Green Was My Valley, 1941

"How can a guy get so low?" "He reached too high." --- Roy Roberts as Carnival Owner in Nightmare Alley, 1947

"Why do you make me do it? Why do you make me do it? You know you're gonna talk. I'm gonna make you talk. I always make you punks talk. Why do you do it? Why? Why?" --- Robert Ryan as Jim Wilson in On Dangerous Ground, 1952

"A little humor, my dear Zilkov, always with a little humor." --- Khigh Dhiegh as Yen Lo in The Manchurian Candidate, 1962

"Mathematics. That was a mistake. I should have made the whole thing a little easier." --- George Burns as God in Oh, God! Book II, 1980

Michael A. Langston

Last updated 12 September 2022

Dr. Michael A. Langston

Research and Software

Teaching and Service

Prized Quotes