Singer’s research is divided into two main components: one - developing algorithms and advanced computational methods to analyze data, and two – using these tools to determine the three-dimensional structures of molecules. “The first component is more theoretical and foundational. I develop algorithms and do mathematical analysis of existing and new algorithms to analyze data. This data can be quite complex with very high dimensionality. This is data with a large amount of noise or the data set can be quite large. So, my lab members and I come up with solutions or tools to process and analyze this data. Such contextualization programing is one part of my research,” he said.
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