In July 2017, Associate Professor Taous Meriem Laleg Kirati joined the Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC). Her expertise in applied mathematics, control systems and signal analysis is a welcome addition to the interdisciplinary nature of the Center. Since joining CBRC, she has been closely working with other CBRC faculty to answer questions from in the biological domain. Currently, she is collaborating with Professor Vladimir Bajic on developing novel computational methods for identification of genomic signals based on signal processing and machine learning.