Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:

Professor Harer's primary research is in the use of geometric, combinatorial and computational techniques to study a variety of problems in data analysis, shape recognition, image segmentation, plant root architecture, biological networks and gene expression.

Specialties:

Topology
Geometry
Applied Math

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions:

• Henry Russell Award, University of Michigan
• Faculty Recognition Award, University of Michigan
• Fellowship, Sloane Foundation
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, NSF

Courses Taught:

• MATH 323S - GEOMETRY (Synopsis)
• CBB 510S - COMP BIO SEMINAR (Synopsis)
• MATH 573S - MODELING BIO SYSTEMS (Synopsis)

Representative Publications: (More Publications)

1. Taras Galkovskyi, Yuriy Mileyko, Alexander Bucksch, Brad Moore, Olga Symonova, Charles A Price, Christopher Topp, Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi, Paul Zurek, Suqin Fang, Philip N Benfey, and Joshua S Weitz , GiA Roots: Software for the High Throughput Analysis of Plant Root System Images, BMC Plant Biology (Submitted, 2011) [abs]
2. Yuriy Mileyko, Sayan Mukherjee, Probability measures on the space of persistence diagrams, Journal of Inverse Problems, vol 27 no. 12 (2011), pp. 25 [abs]
3. Paul Bendich, Taras Galkovskyi, Improving Homology Estimates with Random Walks, Journal of Inverse Problems, vol 27 no. 12 (2011), pp. 16 [abs]
4. Elizabeth Munch, Michael Shapiro, Failure Filtrations for Fenced Sensor Networks, The International Journal of Robotics Research (Submitted, 2011), pp. 14 [abs]
5. Anjali S. Iyer-Pascuzzi, Christopher N. Topp, Jill T. Anderson, Cheng-Ruei Lee, Olga Symonova, Yuriy Mileyko, Taras Galkovsky, Ying Zheng, Randy Clark, Leon Kochian, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Joshua S. Weitz, Thomas Mitchell-Olds and Philip N. Benfey, Quantitative Genetic Analysis of Root System Architecture in Rice Plant and Animal Genomes, XX Genome Conference (2011)