Anand Bhaskar 635 Soda Hall University of California, Berkeley E-mail: lastname at eecs dot berkeley dot edu

I am a 5^th year PhD student in Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley, working with Yun Song on mathematical biology. Before that, I got my B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Computer Science from Cornell University, and an M.A. in Statistics from Berkeley.
I also spent two wonderful years in boarding school while studying in the 11^th and 12^th grades in Raffles Junior College, Singapore.

Research Interests

Population genetics, computational biology, combinatorial stochastic processes

Recent publications

• Approximate sampling formulas for general finite-alleles models of mutation
  Bhaskar A., Kamm J.A., Song Y.S.
  Advances in Applied Probability, 44:408-428, 2012
  [arXiv][abstract]
• Closed-form asymptotic sampling distributions under the coalescent with recombination for an arbitrary number of loci
  Bhaskar A. and Song Y.S.
  Advances in Applied Probability, 44:391-407, 2012
  [arXiv][abstract]
• Confidently estimating the number of DNA Replication Origins
  Bhaskar A. and Keich U.
  Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Vol. 9: Iss. 1, Article 28, 2010
  [pdf]
• A comprehensive genome-wide map of Autonomously Replicating Sequences in a naive genome
  Liachko I., Bhaskar A., Li C., Chung S.C.C., Tye B.K., Keich U.
  PLoS Genetics, 6(5):e1000946, 2010
  [pdf]
• Multi-locus match probability in a finite population: A fundamental difference between the Moran and Wright-Fisher models
  Bhaskar A. and Song Y.S.
  Proceedings of ISMB 2009. Bioinformatics, 25(12):i187-i195, 2009
  [pdf] [software]
• Computational detection of significant variation in binding affinity across two sets of sequences with application to the analysis of replication origins in yeast
  Keich U., Gao H., Garretson JS., Bhaskar A., Liachko I., Donato J., Tye B.
  BMC Bioinformatics, 9:372, 2008
  [pdf]

Theses

• Approximate sampling formulas under the coalescent with finite-alleles models of mutation
  M.A. thesis. Statistics, UC Berkeley, 2012
  [pdf]

Other publications

• A model and framework for reliable build systems
  Coetzee D., Bhaskar A., Necula G.
  EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2012-27, 2012
  [abstract]
• Efficient keyword search over virtual XML views
  Shao F., Guo L., Botev C., Bhaskar A., Chettiar M., Yang F., Shanmugasundaram J.
  VLDB Conference, 2007
  Also invited for publication in the VLDB Journal, 2009.
  [journal version]
• Quark: An efficient XQuery full-text implementation
  Bhaskar A., Botev C., Muthaia Chettiar M., Guo L., Shanmugasundaram J., Shao F.,Yang F.
  ACM SIGMOD Conference, 2006
  [pdf]

Links

Quantum reading group Fall '09, Spring '10