Congratulations to Ivy for being accepted to Harvard Medical School to pursue her MD degree. Ivy is a double major in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics with minor in Chemistry at U Pitt and she joined the group in the summer of 2014 as a TECBio student. She continued working with us throughout her studies. She…
Takis presented the keynote talk about data integration and causal inference at the ICDE workshop on Health Data Management and Mining (HDMM).
Congratulations to Vineet for his excellent presentation at the ICDE workshop on Health Data Management and Mining (HDMM) in San Diego, CA. The title of his paper and presentation was “Integrated Theory and Data-driven Feature Selection for Gene Expression Data Analysis”.
Congratulations to Junke for being accepted to the Computational Biology PhD Program at Cornell. Junke, a Bioinformatics major at U Pitt and she is a recipient of Chancellor’s award for undergraduate research. In our lab, she has worked on the progression of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF). We wish her the…
Congratulations to former group member, Dr. Grace Huang, and former fellow CPCB student, Dr. Justin Hogg, for their wedding on January 15th in San Francisco. We wish them the best.
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…
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.
