Don Adjeroh

Don Adjeroh is a Professor and Associate Chair in the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at West Virginia University (WVU). He serves as Graduate Coordinator for CS programs and has led multiple NSF-sponsored projects including Bridges in Digital Health and Multi-Scale Integrative Approach to Digital Health. His research focuses span Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Data Compression.

• NSF CAREER Award recipient
• Collaborated with institutions like University of Central Florida and University of Canterbury
• Led workshops on Plant Image Analysis and Long Non-Coding RNA research

His academic contributions include co-authoring the book The Burrows Wheeler Transform: Data Compression, Suffix Arrays, and Pattern Matching (Springer, 2008) and developing software tools like BSMP and PSA for data compression and protein family modeling. He teaches graduate-level courses in String Algorithms and Information Theory, with former projects involving undergraduate and graduate students in DNA microarray image processing and 3D video compression research.

Key Scientific Awards:

• NSF CAREER Award
• NASA-WV Space Consortium funding
• WV-EPSCOR grants
• NSF-CITeR support
• DOD-ONR/DHS/DOJ/NIJ/NHPRC sponsorships