Ilya A. Vakser PhD

Dr. Ilya Vakser is an expert in the modeling of protein interactions and the structural description of protein complexes. He is one of the authors of the FFT docking algorithm, which is a standard tool in the protein docking field, and the initiator of the community-wide CAPRI protein docking competition.

Dr. Vakser earned his Ph.D. in biophysics at Moscow State University in 1989 and received further training at the Weizmann Institute, Washington University, and Rockefeller University. He served on the faculty of the Medical University of South Carolina as an Assistant and Associate Professor and SUNY Stony Brook as an Associate Professor. Since 2005 Dr. Vakser is the founding Director and a Full Professor at the Computational Biology (Bioinformatics) Program and Center for Computational Biology at The University of Kansas.