Ofer Margoninski

I am a research fellow with the UCL Beacon Project. This is a collaborative project in computational biology. The aim of the project is to build a model of the human liver by composing models of biological entities down to the level of cells. The project is led by Prof. Anne Warner.

I am also a Ph.D. student and a member of the UCL Computer Science Software Systems Engineering group. My thesis concerns creating a distributed software architecture framework for model integration in Systems Biology. My supervisor is Prof. Anthony Finkelstein. My current research interests are computational and mathematical modeling of biological systems, model integration, component frameworks and software engineering of heterogenous, distributed systems. We have published a few papers describing my research. For the full list see below.

I received my M.Sc. degree from the Hebrew University . My research dealt with new, secure, protocols that do not involve conventional cryptography and my thesis discussed a new, distributed E-Voting protocol that does require the use of any cryptographic protocols on behalf of the voters. I was supervised by Prof. Dahlia Malkhi. A paper describing this work was presented in Financial Cryptography.

I have also spent several years working in the industry, first with BackWeb Technologies and then with AddWise InfoManage, where I was responsible for designing the software architecture of the The Israeli Government e-Commerce Server Currently, I mainly advise the Israeli government on various eGo vernment issues relating to Software Engineering and Computer Security. Among th e projects I'm involved in are an eVoting pilot, the Israeli government ePayments system, and the Israeli Government search portal.

Contact Information

• Phone +44 020 7679 3458
• Fax +44 020 7387 1397
• Mobile +972526178137
• Email:
• URL: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/O.Margoninski

Publications

• Ofer Margoninski, Peter Saffrey, James Hetherington, Anthony Finkelstein and Anne Warner A Specification Language and a Framework for the Execution of Composite Models in Systems Biology Lecture Notes in Computer Science Transactions on Computational Systems Biology, VII, LNBI 4230
• J. Hetherington, I.D.L. Bogle, P.Saffrey, O.Margoninski, L. Li, M. Varela Rey, S. Yamaji, S. Baigent, J. Ashmore, K. Page, R.M. Seymour, A. Finkelstein, A. Warner Addressing the challenges of multiscale model management in systems biology. Computers and Chemical Engineering, In Press, doi:10.1016/j.compchemeng.2006.10.004
• Peter Saffrey, Ofer Margoninski, James Hetherington, Marta Varela-Rey, Sachi Yamaji, Anthony Finkelstein, David Bogle, Anne Warner End-to-end Information Management for Systems Biology Lecture Notes in Computer Science Transactions on Computational Systems Biology, VIII LNBI 4780
• Wright,R ; Varela Rey,M ; Margoninski,O ; Saffrey,P ; Hetherington,J ; Li,L ; Seymour,R ; Warner,A ; Finkelstein,A ; A new framework for the integration of models in biology J Physiol 561P PC31
• O. Margo, P. Saffrey, J. Hetherington, L. Li, A. Warner and A. Finkelstein Integration of Models in Systems Biology Poster at the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology  HTML
  
• L. Li, P. Saffrey, J. Hetherington, O. Margo A. Finkelstein, R. Seymour, A. Warner, Model Orchestration: addressing the challenges of model management and model composition in systems biology 5th International Conference of Systems Biology (ICSB 2004, Heidelberg)
  
• A. Finkelstein, J. Hetherington, L. Li, O. Margoninski, P. Saffrey, A. Warner and A. Warner, Computational Challenges of Systems Biology IEEE Computer, Vol. 37 no. 5 pp 26-33 PDF
  
• D. Malkhi, O. Margoninsky and E. Pavlov E-Voting Without `Cryptography'.
  Proceedings of Financial Cryptography '02 (FC '02). Postscript.

• Itzik Yarchi, Ofer Margo, David Rashty, Prof. Nava Ben-Tzvi The Bible and Talmudic Literature on the Web
  Proceedings of the WebNet 96 conference

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