Ilya Vakser Associate Professor Address Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics Math Tower 2-109 Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-3600 Phone: (631) 632-8377 Fax: (631) 623-8490 E-mail: vakser@ams.sunysb.edu Education Ph.D. in Biophysics, Moscow State University, Russia, 1989 M.S. in Theoretical Physics, Belorussian State University, Belarus, 1982 Previous Appointments Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina Rockefeller University, New York, New York Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri Weizmann Institute, Israel Past and Present Research Interests Modeling of Protein Interactions in Structural Bioinformatics Conformational Analysis of Biological Molecules Support by Funding Agencies and Industry  National Institutes of Health National Science Foundation Honors and Awards Best score in the contest Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (CASP), protein docking category Courses Taught AMS 691: Modeling of Biological Macromolecules Publication/Patents 24 Journal articles 35 Conference papers 11 Books/Book Chapters Research Facilities Bioinformatics Laboratory