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==Biography==
==Biography==
Kari earned a master's degree at the [[University of Bucharest]] in 1987, studying there with [[Gheorghe Păun]], and then moved to the [[University of Turku]] in [[Finland]] for her graduate studies, earning a Ph.D. in 1991 under the supervision of [[Arto Salomaa]].<ref>{{mathgenealogy|id=20521}}</ref><ref name=jucs>[http://www.jucs.org/jucs_articles_by_author/Kari_Lila/BusinessCard Biography] on the web site of the ''[[Journal of Universal Computer Science]]''. Retrieved February 22, 2012</ref> While in Finland, Kari married mathematician [[Jarkko Kari]];<ref>{{citation|title=Tytto joka haluaa kaiken|language=Finnish|first=Anna-Liisa|last=Hamalainen|journal=Kodin Kuvalehti|pages=22–24|date=December 1992|url=http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~lila/FinnishInterviewUpdated.pdf}}.</ref> they divorced, and Jarkko Kari has remained in Finland at the University of Turku.<ref>[http://vanha.math.utu.fi/staff/kari.php Staff profile of Jarkko Kari], U. Turku mathematics department. Retrieved September 9, 2011</ref> She came to the [[University of Western Ontario]] as a visiting professor in 1993, and by 1996 had been hired there as a tenure-track faculty member.<ref name=jucs/><ref name=bucke>{{citation|url=http://communications.uwo.ca/com/western_news/profiles/biocomputing_researcher_awarded_the_bucke_prize_20020321435998/|title=Biocomputing researcher awarded the Bucke Prize|journal=Western News|publisher=[[University of Western Ontario]]|date=March 21, 2002}}.</ref> In 2017 she accepted a position of professor of computer science and University Research Chair at the [[University of Waterloo]].
Kari earned a master's degree at the [[University of Bucharest]] in 1987, studying there with [[Gheorghe Păun]], and then moved to the [[University of Turku]] in [[Finland]] for her graduate studies, earning a Ph.D. in 1991 under the supervision of [[Arto Salomaa]].<ref>{{mathgenealogy|id=20521}}</ref><ref name=jucs>[http://www.jucs.org/jucs_articles_by_author/Kari_Lila/BusinessCard Biography] on the web site of the ''[[Journal of Universal Computer Science]]''. Retrieved February 22, 2012</ref> While in Finland, Kari married mathematician [[Jarkko Kari]];<ref>{{citation|title=Tytto joka haluaa kaiken|language=Finnish|first=Anna-Liisa|last=Hamalainen|journal=Kodin Kuvalehti|pages=22–24|date=December 1992|url=http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~lila/FinnishInterviewUpdated.pdf}}.</ref> they divorced, and Jarkko Kari has remained in Finland at the University of Turku.<ref>[http://vanha.math.utu.fi/staff/kari.php Staff profile of Jarkko Kari] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205035038/http://vanha.math.utu.fi/staff/kari.php |date=2008-12-05 }}, U. Turku mathematics department. Retrieved September 9, 2011</ref> She came to the [[University of Western Ontario]] as a visiting professor in 1993, and by 1996 had been hired there as a tenure-track faculty member.<ref name=jucs/><ref name=bucke>{{citation|url=http://communications.uwo.ca/com/western_news/profiles/biocomputing_researcher_awarded_the_bucke_prize_20020321435998/|title=Biocomputing researcher awarded the Bucke Prize|journal=Western News|publisher=[[University of Western Ontario]]|date=March 21, 2002}}.</ref> In 2017 she accepted a position of professor of computer science and University Research Chair at the [[University of Waterloo]].


==Research==
==Research==

Revision as of 06:49, 23 December 2017

Lila Kari (née Santean) is a Romanian and Canadian computer scientist, professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Biography

Kari earned a master's degree at the University of Bucharest in 1987, studying there with Gheorghe Păun, and then moved to the University of Turku in Finland for her graduate studies, earning a Ph.D. in 1991 under the supervision of Arto Salomaa.[1][2] While in Finland, Kari married mathematician Jarkko Kari;[3] they divorced, and Jarkko Kari has remained in Finland at the University of Turku.[4] She came to the University of Western Ontario as a visiting professor in 1993, and by 1996 had been hired there as a tenure-track faculty member.[2][5] In 2017 she accepted a position of professor of computer science and University Research Chair at the University of Waterloo.

Research

Kari's thesis research was in formal language theory. In the mid-1990s, inspired by an article by Leonard Adleman in Science, she shifted her interests to DNA computing.[6] In her research, together with Laura Landweber, she has initiated and explored the study of computational power of DNA processing in ciliates,[7] using her expertise to show that the DNA operations performed by genetic recombination in these organisms are Turing complete.[5] Her more recent research has studied issues of nondeterminism and undecidability in self-assembly,[8] as well as alignment-free methods based on Chaos Game Representation of DNA genomic sequences to identify and classify species based on molecular evidence.[9] [10]

Awards and honors

Kari won the Rolf Nevanlinna doctoral thesis award for the best Finnish mathematics doctoral thesis in 1991.[11] From 2002 to 2011, she held a Canada Research Chair in Biocomputing.[12]

References

  1. ^ Lila Kari at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ a b Biography on the web site of the Journal of Universal Computer Science. Retrieved February 22, 2012
  3. ^ Hamalainen, Anna-Liisa (December 1992), "Tytto joka haluaa kaiken" (PDF), Kodin Kuvalehti (in Finnish): 22–24.
  4. ^ Staff profile of Jarkko Kari Archived 2008-12-05 at the Wayback Machine, U. Turku mathematics department. Retrieved September 9, 2011
  5. ^ a b "Biocomputing researcher awarded the Bucke Prize", Western News, University of Western Ontario, March 21, 2002.
  6. ^ "Careers in Nanobiotechnology: Through the Eyes of a Mathematician", Science Careers, February 2, 2001
  7. ^ Landweber, Laura; Kari, Lila (1999), "The evolution of cellular computing: Nature's solution to a computational problem", Biosystem, 52 (1–3): 3–13, doi:10.1016/s0303-2647(99)00027-1.
  8. ^ Adleman, Leonard; Kari, Jarkko; Kari, Lila; Reishus, Dustin; Sosik, Petr (2009), "The Undecidability of the Infinite Ribbon Problem: Implications for Computing by Self-Assembly.", SIAM J. Comput., 38 (6): 2356–2381, doi:10.1137/080723971.
  9. ^ Kari, Lila; Hill, Kathleen; Sayem, Abu; Karamichalis, Rallis; Bryans, Nathaniel; Davis, Katelyn; Dattani, Nikesh (2015), "Mapping the Space of Genomic Signatures", PLoS ONE, 10 (5): e0119815, arXiv:1406.4105, Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1019815K, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0119815 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |class= ignored (help)CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link).
  10. ^ Karamichalis, Rallis; Kari, Lila; Konstantinidis, Stavros; Kopecki, Steffen (2015), "An investigation into inter- and intragenomic variations of graphic genomic signatures", BMC Bioinformatics, 16: 246, arXiv:1503.00162, Bibcode:2015arXiv150300162K, doi:10.1186/s12859-015-0655-4, PMC 4527362, PMID 26249837 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |class= ignored (help)CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link).
  11. ^ "The Rolf Nevanlinna doctoral thesis award". Archived from the original on June 23, 2007. Retrieved February 22, 2012. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  12. ^ "Canada Research Chairs: Lila Kari". Archived from the original on May 8, 2014. Retrieved February 22, 2012. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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