Assistant Professor of Mathematics

amir.niknejad@mountsaintvincent.edu  718-405-3405

Education:

Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Illinois

MS. Mathematical Statistics and Operations Research, Claremont Grad School

Research Interests:

Modeling gene expression data, from DNA microarrays.

Analysis of gene regulatory network.

Modeling Protein-Protein interactions network and its evolution.

Publications:

A simultaneous reconstruction of missing data in DNA microarrays, S. Friedland, A. Niknejad and L. Chihara, Linear Algebra and its Applications, 2006, Vol. 416, No.1, pp.8-28.

An Algorithm for Missing Value Estimation in DNA Microarrays, S.Friedland, A. Niknejad, M. Kaveh, H. Zare, Proceedings of IEEE, ICASSP, 2006.

Fast Monte-Carlo low rank approximation for matrices. S. Friedland, A. Niknejad, M. Kaveh and H. Zare, Proceedings of IEEE, SOSE, 2006, pp. 218-223.

DNA Sequence Representation without Degeneracy. S S. -T. Yau, J.Wang, A. Niknejad, C. Lu, N. Jin, and Y-K.Ho, Nucl. Acids Res, 2003, Vol. 31, pp. 3078-3080.