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Steffen Heber is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at NC State University and serves as Director of Graduate Programs. He holds a joint appointment with the College of Sciences in support of the Bioinformatics Research Center.

Heber studied mathematics and biology at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics in 2001 while working at the German Cancer Research Center. He completed postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Diego before joining NC State in 2003.

His research focuses on bioinformatics and computational biology. Heber develops algorithms for the analysis, summarization and quality control of complex biological data. His interests include data-driven storytelling, gene transcription and alternative splicing, translation, nature-inspired computation and common intervals.

Heber has received several honors, including the IBM Faculty Award, the Faculty Research and Professional Development Award from NC State, the Best Paper Award at ACMSE and the Carol Miller Graduate Lecturer Award. He has also received multiple recognitions from the Thank a Teacher program at NC State.

Area(s) of Expertise

Advanced Learning Technologies
Algorithms and Theory of Computation
Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents
Data Sciences and Analytics
Graphics, Human Computer Interaction, and User Experience
Scientific and High Performance Computing

Publications

• Recruitment of bifunctional regulator thermospermine to methylated ribosomes directs xylem fate , Science (2026)
• PeakPass: Automating ChIP-Seq Blacklist Creation , Lecture notes in computer science (2019)
• PeakPass: Automating ChIP-Seq Blacklist Creation , Journal of Computational Biology (2019)
• RiboStreamR: a web application for quality control, analysis, and visualization of Ribo-seq data , BMC Genomics (2019)
• Disruption of Trim9 function abrogates macrophage motility in vivo , Journal of Leukocyte Biology (2017)
• riboStreamR: A web application for quality control, analysis, and visualization of Ribo-seq data , International conference on computational advances in bio and medical (2017)
• Genome-wide search for translated upstream open reading frames in Arabidopsis thaliana , IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience (2016)
• Transcriptomic Signature of the SHATTERPROOF2 Expression Domain Reveals the Meristematic Nature of Arabidopsis Gynoecial Medial Domain , Plant Physiology (2016)
• A Stacking-Based Approach to Identify Translated Upstream Open Reading Frames in Arabidopsis Thaliana , Bioinformatics Research and Applications (2015)
• A stacking-based approach to identify translated upstream open reading frames in Arabidopsis thaliana , Bioinformatics research and applications (isbra 2015) (2015)

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