About Me

My name is Pang Ko. I graduated from Iowa State University in May 2001 with two B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics, minoring in Statistics. I later obtained my ph.D from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University in August 2007. My major professor was Srinivas Aluru.

I am currently a post doc in Department of Bioengineering  at University of California, San Diego and my supervisor is Shankar Subramaniam.

Research Interests

  • Bioinformatics and computer biology
  • Pattern matching and string data structure and algorithms
  • Information retreival data structure and algorithms