Department of Mathematics

Amir Niknejad, Ph.D.

Amir Niknejad

Sisters of Charity 200th Anniversary Associate Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., University of Illinois
M.S., Claremont Graduate University

amir.niknejad@mountsaintvincent.edu

Areas of Interest

  • Modeling gene expression data (DNA microarrays)
  • Analysis of gene regulatory network
  • Modeling protein-protein interactions network and its evolution

Courses

  • MATH 119 Statistics
  • MATH 132 Calculus II
  • MATH 341 Abstract Algebra I

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

Niknejad, A., Friedland, S., Kaveh, M., and Zare, H., “An Algorithm for Missing Value Estimation in DNA Microarrays,” Proceedings Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, ICASSP, 2006

Niknejad, A., Friedland, S., Kaveh, M., and Zare, H., “Fast Monte-Carlo low rank approximation for matrices,” Proceedings Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, SOSE, pp. 218-223, 2006

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