Dr. Lucas Santana dos Santos (Benos Lab) successfully defended his thesis: Computational Methods for the Functional Analysis of DNA Sequence Variants. He will move on to work at UPMC as a Bioinformatics Specialist. Congratulations, Lucas! We wish you the best of luck in your new position.
Congratulations to Vineet Raghu, whose paper was recently accepted for oral presentation in the 2nd International Workshop on Health Data Management and Mining (HDMM 2017)! “Integrated Theory- and Data-driven Dimensionality Reduction in High-throughput Gene Expression Data Analysis” V.K. Raghu, X. Ge, P.K. Chrysanthis, P.V. Benos, “Integrated Theory- and Data-driven Dimensionality Reduction …
Takis gave a presentation about “Data integration and causal inference for systems medicine” at the QCBio Research Seminar at UCLA. The presentation can be found here.
Congratulations to AJ, who successfully defended his thesis, “Graphical models for de novo and pathway-based network prediction over multi-modal high-throughput biological data” on June 29. AJ joined the CPCB program and Benos lab following his BS in Computer Science at Princeton University. We would also like to congratulate AJ and his …
Junke Zhang will receive the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship for the Fall 2016 to pursue research in our lab. Her work will involve the use of machine learning techniques to understand mechanisms of COPD.