Gad Landau

Dr. Gad Landau is a Research Professor at the University of Haifa's Department of Computer Science. His work specializes in algorithms, computational biology, and string processing. He has developed foundational methods for sequence alignment, RNA structure comparison, and parallel computing.

Landau's research addresses challenges in genomics, text indexing, and bioinformatics optimization. His contributions include efficient algorithms for suffix-prefix problems and unrestricted cost matrix alignment, widely applied in genome sequencing.

He collaborates internationally and has served as a professor at NYU Tandon. His lab focuses on theoretical computer science with biological applications, including RNA folding and DNA sequence analysis.