Tulane Engineering Forum

Shi-Ping Hsu

Dr. Shi-Ping Hsu is the Vice President of Technology and Business Development at Paracel, a business unit of Celera Genomics. At Celera, Dr. Hsu is developing high throughput analysis tools to expedite the mapping of human genome. The analysis tools involve special hardware that performs dynamic programming one thousand times faster than a Pentium processor. Dr. Hsu is also involved in the Celera Discovery System, and Internet portal that delivers the human genome and related services to customers, and eventually to consumers.

Prior to Celera, Dr. Hsu was a Technical Fellow at TRW's Systems and Information Technology Group. He was also an Engineering and Manufacturing Fellow at TRW Automotive. As a Fellow in two sectors of REW, Dr. Hsu initiated a few information technology programs for TRW including fingerprint technology for consumer applications, automotive communications systems, and voice recognition technology for commercial applications.

Prior to TRW, Dr. Hsu worked at XEROX Corp. where he developed technologies for reprographic machines.

Dr. Hsu received his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1979 and his B.S. in Physics from the National Taiwan University in 1973.

Presentation Topic: From Human Genome to Personalized Medicine

By Shi-Ping Hsu

Summary

The large human genome sequencing efforts have caused a lot of excitement and controversy recently. What is the goal of these efforts? One of the biggest benefits will be personalized medicine. It is to transform medicine from today's symptomatic approach to a molecular approach, customizing medicine to each patient, thus increasing efficacy and safety.

It is a long, hard road ahead of us. The human genome sequences only help us reach the starting line. There will be a lot of research and development efforts in genomics, proteomics, and drug discovery to get us there. Computer and Web technology will play a key role in this process. This talk will present some of the examples of bioinformatics - a new field that combines computing and biology. Web portal will be one of the major distribution channels for these information.