• Ph.D.(2006) Applied Mathematics, University of Southern California

• M.A. (2005) Applied Mathematics, University of Southern California

• Ph.D. (1996) Pure Mathematics, Yerevan State University, Armenia

• BS (1993) Mathematics, Yerevan State University, Armenia

• Employment:
  • 2003-2006 Research Assistant, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2000-2003 Teaching Assistant, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  • 1998 - 2000 Researcher, Department of Real Analysis, Institute of Mathematics of Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Armenia
  • 1994 - 1996 Research assistant, Department of Real Analysis, Institute of Mathematics of Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Armenia
  • 1992 - 1994 Research assistant, Department of Mathematics, Yerevan State University, Armenia

• Professional Training:

  • 2010-present Postdoctoral Research Associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

  • 2006-2010 Postdoctoral Research Associate at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Research Interests:

• Theoretical population genetics
• Population genetic models for understanding evolution of pathogens in vivo and in vitro
• Statistical inference methods
• Mathematical modeling
• Computationally tractable algorithms

Selected Recent Publications:

• Sargsyan, O., Analytical framework for identifying and differentiating recent hitchhiking and severe bottleneck effects from multi-locus DNA sequence data. PLoS ONE 7(5): e37588. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037588 (2012)

• Sargsyan, O., Topologies of the conditional ancestral trees and full likelihood-based inference in the general coalescent tree framework. Genetics, 185, 1355-1368 (2010).

• Wakeley, J. and Sargsyan, O., The conditional ancestral selection graph with strong balancing selection. Theoretical Population Biology, 75, 355 - 364 (2009).

• Wakeley, J. and Sargsyan, O., Extensions of the coalescent effective population size. Genetics, 181, 341 - 345 (2009)

• Sargsyan, O. and Wakeley J., A coalescent process with simultaneous multiple mergers for approximating the gene genealogies of many marine organisms. Theoretical Population Biology74, 104 - 114 (2008).