I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the department
of bioinformatics at
Genentech.
Previous research positions: Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, in
mathematics;
Stanford University, in
statistics.
I received my Ph. D. in
statistics in 2004 from University of California, Berkeley
(my thesis advisor was
Yuval Peres)
and my B.A. in mathematics in 1996 from
Harvard University.
I also spent two years working for
D. E. Shaw & Co. in New York City.
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microarray studies of
genes involved in the
immune reponse to cancer:
the GXNA algorithm
•
the mathematical modeling of
ant
colonies
•
probability theory: some topics of interest
are the Ising model, simulation algorithms, and the
Brownian loop soup
Statistics 116, Spring 2006 (Stanford account required)
Applications
Serban Nacu, Rebecca Critchley-Thorne, Peter Lee and Susan Holmes,
Gene Expression Network Analysis and Applications to
Immunology,
Bioinformatics, 23, 850-858 (2007):
pdf.
Dana Porrat, David Tse and Serban Nacu,
Channel Uncertainty in Ultra Wideband Communication Systems,
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 53:1, 194-208 (2007):
pdf.
Rebecca Critchley-Thorne, Ning Yan, Serban Nacu, Jeffrey Weber, Susan
Holmes and Peter Lee,
Inhibition of Interferon Signaling in Lymphocytes in Metastatic
Melanoma Patients,
PLoS Medicine, 4:5 (2007):
html.
Deborah Gordon, Susan Holmes and Serban Nacu,
The Short-term Regulation of Foraging in Harvester Ants,
to appear in Behavioral Ecology.
Blair Beverly, Helen McLendon, Serban Nacu, Susan Holmes and Deborah
Gordon,
How Site Fidelity Leads to Individual Differences in the Foraging
Activity of Harvester Ants,
preprint.
Probability Theory
Serban Nacu,
Glauber Dynamics on the Cycle Is Monotone,
Probability Theory and Related Fields, 127, 177-185 (2003):
pdf.
Serban Nacu and Yuval Peres,
Fast Simulation of New Coins From Old,
Annals of Applied Probability, 15, 93-115 (2005):
pdf.
Serban Nacu,
Increments of Random Partitions,
Combinatorics, Probability and Computing, 15:4, 589-595 (2006):
pdf.
