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NAME
POSITION TITLE
Meyer, Clifford Alexander
Research Fellow
EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION
DEGREE
(if applicable)
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
B.Sc.
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Ph.D.
Harvard School of Public Health, Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute, Boston, MA
Post-doctoral
M.Sc.
YEAR(s)
FIELD OF STUDY
1990-1993 Chemical Engineering
1994-1996 Chemical Engineering
1997-2003 Chemical Engineering
2003-2005 Biostatistics
Positions and Experiences
1994-1996
M.Sc. research on algorithm development for the solution of phase and chemical equilibrium problems
1997-2003
Ph.D. research on the design and implementation of algorithms for global optimization
2003-2005
Research fellow, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Dept. of Biostatistical
Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston
Honors and Awards
1994-1996
MINTEK fellowship for M.Sc. research
1996
S2A3 Gencor Bronze Medal award by the South African Institute for the Advancement of Science for the
best masters dissertation in the Science, Engineering and Health Science Faculties
1999
Ticona Award for assistance in instruction
2005-present Roadmap Fellow: Interdisciplinary Training Program in Genetics and Complex Diseases
Publications
Meyer, C.A., C.L.E. Swartz A regional convexity test for global optimization: Application to the phase equilibrium
problem, Computers and Chemical Engineering (1998).
Floudas, C.A., P.M. Pardalos, C.S. Adjiman, W.R. Esposito, Z. Gumus, S.T. Harding, J.L. Klepeis, C.A. Meyer, and C.A.
Schweiger, Handbook of Test Problems for Local and Global Optimization, Kluwer Academic Publishers, (1999).
Meyer, C.A., A. Neumaier, C.A. Floudas, Global Optimization with Non-Factorable Constraints, Industrial and
Engineering Chemistry Research (2002)
Meyer C.A., C.A. Floudas, Trilinear Monomials with Mixed Sign Domains: Facets of the Convex and Concave
Envelopes, Journal of Global Optimization, accepted for publication (2003).
Meyer, C.A., C.A. Floudas, Trilinear Monomials with Positive or Negative Domains: Facets of the Convex and
Concave Envelopes'', Frontiers in Global Optimization, (Eds. P.M. Pardalos and C.A. Floudas), (2003).
Meyer, C.A. and C.A. Floudas, Convex Underestimation of Twice Continuously Differentiable Functions via Piecewise
Quadratic Perturbation, Foundations of Computer Aided Process Design Proceedings, Princeton (2004).
Akrotirianakis, I.G., C.A. Meyer and C.A. Floudas, The Role of the Off-Diagonal Elements of the Hessian Matrix in
the Construction of Tight Convex Underestimators of Nonconvex Functions, Foundations of Computer Aided
Process Design Proceedings, Princeton (2004).
Li W, C.A. Meyer, X.S. Liu, A hidden Markov model for analyzing ChIP-chip experiments on genome tiling arrays and
its application to p53 binding sequences. ISMB2005. Bioinformatics. (2005).
Carroll, J.S., X.S. Liu, A.S. Brodsky, W. Li, A.J. Szary, C.A. Meyer, W. Shao, E.V. Hestermann, T.R. Geistlinger, E.A.
Fox, P.A. Silver, M. Brown, Chromosome-wide mapping of estrogen receptor binding reveals long-range
regulation requiring the forkhead protein FoxA1. Cell. (2005).
Brodsky AS, Meyer CA, Hall G, Swinburne IA, Keenan BJ, Liu XS, Fox EA, Silver PA. Genomic mapping of RNA
polymerase II reveals sites of co-transcriptional regulation in human cells. Genome Biology. (2005)
Research Support:
PHS 398/2590 (Rev. 05/01)
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