John H. Reif

A. Hollis Edens Distinguished Professor of Computer Science

Molecular assembly, DNA computing, robot motion planning, parallel algorithms, randomized algorithms, graph algorithms, algebraic computation, data compression, optical computation, and quantum computation.

Appointments and Affiliations

• A. Hollis Edens Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
• Professor of Computer Science
• Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Contact Information

• Office Location: LSRC D-229, 308 Research Drive, Dept Comp Sci, Duke U, Durham, NC 27708
• Office Phone: (919) 407-1961
• Email Address: reif@cs.duke.edu
• Websites:
  • Website

Education

• Ph.D. Harvard University , 1977
• M.S. Harvard University , 1975
• B.S. Tufts University, 1973

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• Tufts Notable. Tufts University. 2010
• AAAS Fellow. American Association for the Advancement of Science. 2003
• Highly Cited Researcher. Thomson Reuters. 2001
• Fellow. Association for Computing Machinery. 1997
• Fellows. Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 1993

Courses Taught

• COMPSCI 93: History of Computing, Cryptography, and Robotic Devices
• COMPSCI 531D: Introduction to Algorithms
• COMPSCI 534: Computational Complexity
• COMPSCI 590: Advanced Topics in Computer Science
• COMPSCI 891: Special Readings in Computer Science
• ECE 891: Internship

In the News

• Designing With DNA (Dec 23, 2022)
• I.D. Verification, Now for Cancer (Nov 22, 2019)
• Tiny Light-Up Barcodes Identify Molecules by Their Twinkling (Apr 11, 2019)
• Analog DNA Circuit Does Math in a Test Tube (Aug 23, 2016)
• Carolyn McAllaster, Susan S. Reif: Funding fails to keep pace with South's HIV epidemic (Dec 1, 2015 | The News & Observer)

Representative Publications

• Nagipogu, RT; Fu, D; Reif, JH, A survey on molecular-scale learning systems with relevance to DNA computing., Nanoscale, vol 15 no. 17 (2023), pp. 7676-7694 [10.1039/d2nr06202j] [abs].
• Yang, M; Reif, J, Social DNA Nanorobots, vol Part F821 (2023), pp. 371-396 [10.1007/978-981-19-9891-1_20] [abs].
• Fu, D; Pradeep Narayanan, R; Prasad, A; Zhang, F; Williams, D; Schreck, JS; Yan, H; Reif, J, Automated design of 3D DNA origami with non-rasterized 2D curvature., Science Advances, vol 8 no. 51 (2022) [10.1126/sciadv.ade4455] [abs].
• Reif, J; Fu, D; Williams, D; Yan, H; Zhang, F; Prasad, A, Data from: Automated design of 3D DNA origami with non-rasterized 2D curvature (2022) [10.7924/r4d223179] [abs].
• Bui, H; Chandran, H; Garg, S; Gopalkrishnan, N; Mokhtar, R; Reif, J; Song, T, DNA computing (2022), pp. 1-42 [10.1201/b16812-28] [abs].