Yanni Sun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. She received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Xi'an JiaoTong University in 1998 and 2001 respectively, both in Computer Science. She received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Washington University in Saint Louis in 2008. She works in bioinformatics and computational biology. In particular, her recent research interests include sequence analysis, next-generation sequencing data analysis, protein domain annotation, and noncoding RNA annotation. She was a recipient of NSF CAREER Award in 2010.
Bioinformatics/computational biology: algorithm design for large-scale sequence database analysis, protein domain and noncoding RNA identification in the next-generation sequencing data (RNA-Seq and Metagenomic data), genome-scale noncoding RNA search, sequence similarity search, protein domain classification, miRNA identification, CRISPR annotation in metagenomic data.
