Research Interests for John Harer

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.

Current projects:

Systems Biology

Computational Topology

Statistical Topology

Self-Healing Networks

Network Inference

Geometric Image Analysis

Areas of Interest:

Computational Biology
Computational Topology
Dynamics on Networks
Algorithms

Recent Publications

1. with 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. with Yuriy Mileyko, Sayan Mukherjee, Probability measures on the space of persistence diagrams, Journal of Inverse Problems, vol. 27 no. 12 (2011), pp. 25 [abs] [author's comments]
3. with Paul Bendich, Taras Galkovskyi, Improving Homology Estimates with Random Walks, Journal of Inverse Problems, vol. 27 no. 12 (2011), pp. 16 [abs]
4. with Elizabeth Munch, Michael Shapiro, Failure Filtrations for Fenced Sensor Networks, The International Journal of Robotics Research (Submitted, 2011), pp. 14 [abs]
5. with 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)