Benjamin McClosky

Experience

• Nature Source Genetics, 2009-present.

Education

• postdoc, Operations Research, Columbia University.
• Ph.D., Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University.
• M.A., Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University.
• B.S., Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida.

Publications

• B McClosky and SD Tanksley: Optimizing experimental design in genetics, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, to appear.
• J LaCombe, B McClosky, SD Tanksley: Location dependent empirical thresholds for quantitative trait mapping, G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 2(9) (2012).
• B McClosky, X Ma, SD Tanksley: Quantifying the relative contribution of the heterozygous class to QTL detection power, Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 10(1) (2011).
• D Bienstock, B Mcclosky: Tightening simple mixed-integer sets with guaranteed bounds, Math Programming 133(1): 337-363 (2012).
• B McClosky, IV Hicks: Combinatorial algorithms for the maximum k-plex problem, J. Combinatorial Optimization 23(1): 29-49 (2012).
• B McClosky: Clique relaxations, Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science (2011).
• B McClosky, A Simms, IV Hicks: Co-2-plex polynomials, J. Combinatorial Optimization 22(4): 640-650 (2011).
• B McClosky, IV Hicks: The co-2-plex polytope and integral systems, SIAM J. Discrete Math. 23(3): 1135-1148 (2009).
• B McClosky, IV Hicks: Composition of stable set polyhedra, Operations Research Letters 36(5): 615-617 (2008).

My advisor: Dr. Illya V. Hicks.

Contact me: b{insert my last name here} at naturesourcegenetics dot com
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