Cristina Pop - Academics

Academics

I am currently a PhD student in Computer Science at Stanford University, working with Daphne Koller. My area of research is probabilistic models for biological problems. I completed my degree in Computer Engineering with Honours Mathematics in 2008 from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Publications & Conferences

PUBLICATIONS
2010	Improved free energy parameters for RNA pseudoknotted secondary structure prediction Mirela Andronescu, Cristina Pop, and Anne Condon RNA Journal 16(1):26-42 (link)
2007	HFold: RNA Pseudoknotted Secondary Structure Prediction Using Hierarchical Folding Hosna Jabbari, Anne Condon, Ana Pop, Cristina Pop, and Yinglei Zhao 7th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI), Philadelphia, USA (link) Algorithms in Bioinformatics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 4645:323-334. (link)

TALKS & POSTERS
2010	Analysis of the regulatory landscape affecting translational efficiency BCATS Symposium (Biocompuation at Stanford) (link) November 2010 3rd-best talk
2010	Analysis of the regulatory landscape affecting translational efficiency Translational Control Meeting, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (link) Poster

Project Reports
Spring 2007	On Initial Conditions for Biological Simulations Cristina Pop EECE 496 Project Report, UBC (pdf)
Fall 2007	Review of DNA Sequencing Using Biological and Synthetic Nanopores Cristina Pop and Karen C. Cheung EECE 490K Review Paper, UBC

Teaching

Teaching Assistant

2010
Probabilistic Graphical Models (CS 228)
Computer Science Department, Stanford

2009
Computational Genomics (CS 262)
Computer Science Department, Stanford

2009
Senior Software Project (CS 194)
Computer Science Department, Stanford

2006
Linear Systems (MATH 152)
Mathematics Department, UBC

2006
Linear Systems (MATH 152)
Mathematics Department, UBC

Volunteer

2008-present
Board Member for Women in Computer Science at Stanford Univeristy

2007
Committee Member for Calliope Network and Conference, designed to connect creative girls with artists and innovators (link)