Jason Miller
- Undergraduate Faculty
- Graduate Faculty
Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Science
Biography
Dr. Jason Rafe Miller has expertise in artificial intelligence, software engineering, database design, and bioinformatics. He has over 40 peer-reviewed publications, mostly concerned with applications of computer science to molecular biology. During the Human Genome Project, he contributed to algorithms development and genome research at the J. Craig Venter Institute and at GlaxoSmithKline. His recent research employs machine learning to address specific questions in RNA bioinformatics. He holds a B.A. from NYU, an M.S. from Penn, and a Ph.D. from WVU. A college professor since 2017, he enjoys exposing students to the art of computer programming.
Find Dr. Miller’s complete publications list at OrcID or LinkedIn
Personal Notes:
- Dr. Miller was born in New York City and has lived in Frederick County MD since 2000. His spouse and two grown children are all engineers.
- Dr. Miller is an organizer of the annual Old Time Weekend for musicians who play Appalachian string band music on acoustic stringed instruments.
Education
Professional Highlights
Evaluation of machine learning models that predict lncRNA subcellular localization
Miller et al. 2024 NAR Genomics & Bioinformatics
Machine learning on alignment features for parent-of-origin classification of simulated hybrid RNA-seq
Miller et al. 2024 BMC Bioinformatics
Novel isoforms of influenza virus PA-X and PB1-F2 indicated by automatic annotation
Burnham, Miller et al. 2021 Virus Research
Analysis of the Aedes albopictus C6/36 genome provides insight into cell line utility for viral propagation
Miller et al. 2018 GigaScience
Canu: scalable and accurate long-read assembly via adaptive k-mer weighting and repeat separation. [This software paper has been cited by over 6000 publications.]
Koren et al. 2017 Genome Research
The Atlantic salmon genome provides insights into rediploidization.
Lien et al. 2016 Nature
The bonobo genome compared with the chimpanzee and human genomes. [Senior author Svante Pääbo later won the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology.]
Prüfer et al. 2012 Nature Communications
Assembly algorithms for next-generation sequencing data. [This review paper has been cited by over 1500 publications.]
Miller et al. 2010 Genomics
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