Du Plessis, Louis

ETH Zürich Louis Du Plessis Theoretische Biologie, Bonhoeffer CHN H 76.1 Universitätstrasse 16 8092 Zuerich Phone: +41 44 632 33 37 E-Mail:

Short CV

• 2011-present: PhD student in the Theoretical Biology group at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, with Sebastian Bonhoeffer.
• 2009-2011: Master of Science in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Master's thesis with Maria Anisimova, Investigations into the relationship between evolutionary rate variation, protein structure and codon usage.
• 2008-2009: BSc Honours in Computational and Applied Mathematics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Honour's thesis with Amandine Robin, An investigation of stochastic algorithms for subpixel classification: Application to mineral data.
• 2008: BSc Honours in Computer Science at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Honour's thesis with Scott Hazelhurst, Clustering short reads using suffix arrays and the d² distance measure.
• 2005-2007: BSc in Computer Science, Computational and Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Techniques at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• 2003: High school diploma, Alberton, South Africa.

Publications

• Louis du Plessis, Nives Škunca and Christophe Dessimoz, The what, where, how and why of gene ontology – a primer for bioinformaticians, Briefings in Bioinformatics, (2011), in press.
• Louis du Plessis, Rui Xu, Steven Damelin, Michael Sears and Donald Wunsch, Reducing dimensionality of hyperspectral data with diffusion maps and clustering with K-means and fuzzy ART, Int. J. Systems Control and Communications, (3) (2011), pp 3-10.
• Louis du Plessis, Steven Damelin and Michael Sears, Reducing the dimensionality of hyperspectral data using diffusion maps, Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium, Cape Town, (2009), pp 105-109.
• Louis du Plessis, Rui Xu, Steven Damelin, Michael Sears and Donald Wunsch, Analysis of Hyperspectral Data with Diffusion Maps and Fuzzy ART, Proceedings of International Conference of Neural Networks, Atlanta, (2009), pp 32-36.
• Kerry-Anne Cawse, Steven Damelin, Richard McIntyre, Michael Mitchley, Louis du Plessis and Michael Sears, An Investigation of data compression techniques for Hyperspectral Core Imager data, Proceedings of the Mathematics in Industry Study Group 2008, South Africa, (2008), pp. 1-25