   I am now in search of a topic to pursue my PhD on.  For my PhD. qualifier, I studied the problem of quickly finding approximately matching clones in a restriction mapping experiment.  I came up with an interesting algorithm to speed up the process and analyzed some of the tradeoffs.  I think that the ideas behind the algorithm are general enough to define a general scheme for approximate matching in other contexts.  I was advised mainly by professor Larry <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/ruzzo.html">Ruzzo</a> , and also by professor <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/karp.html">Karp</a>. <p>
