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Nakhleh ( Arabic ): لؤي نخله; born May 8, 1974) is a Palestinian-Israeli-American computer scientist and computational biologist who is the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of the George R.1Brown School of Engineering , a professor of Computer Science and a professor of BioSciences at Rice University in Houston, Texas.2
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Luay Nakhleh is the J.S.
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Nakhleh ( Arabic : لؤي نخله; born May 8, 1974) is a Palestinain-Israeli-American computer scientist and computational biologist.Brown School of Engineering at Rice University .Nakhleh's research is on computational and statistical approaches to phylogenomics and comparative genomics .
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palestinian-israeli-american computer scientist and computational biologist who is the william and stephanie si
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palestinian-israeli-american computer scientist and computational biologist
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