2009Summer, 2009: Our submission to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has been accepted. The paper is titled TESLA: Recovering Time-Varying Networks of Dependencies in Social and Biological Studies by Amr Ahmed and Eric Xing. This work has revealed for the first time how genetic networks in the fruit fly evolve during the insect's life cycle. See CMU News release. Summer, 2009: SAILING Lab has received a grant of $2,66 Million from National Institute of Health to develop new theoretical foundation and efficient algorithm and software that enable next-generation genome-wide association studies. The proposal, titled "Genome-Transcriptome-Phenome-Wide Association: a new paradigm for association studies of complex diseases", received a top 0.7 percentile in the NIH review, and was commended to be "very timely, mathematically rigorous, and very novel, ... shows an admirable grasp of the issues associated with clinical descriptions of complex phenotypes classified as a single disease, ... and the collaboration with clinicians is realistic and likely to bear fruit." Spring, 2009: Steve Hanneke has defended his Ph D thesis successfully. Steve's thesis was titled "Theoretical Foundations of Active Learning" and was co-advised by Eric Xing and Larry Wasserman. Steve will be joining the Carnegie Mellon Statistics department in Fall 2009 as Visiting Assistant Professor. Congratulations, Steve ! Spring, 2009: SAILING Lab has received a new grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR). Spring, 2009: SAILING Lab will be well represented in several premiere conferences to take place this summer in its domain of interest: we have 4 papers accepted to ICML 09, 3 papers accepted to ISMB 09, 2 papers accepted to KDD 09, and 1 paper each accepted to ACL 09 and AISTAT 09. See the Publications page for details. Spring, 2009: Sailing members Eric Xing and Amr Ahmed are among four finalists in the inaugural Elsevier Grand Challenge on Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences, a contest designed to encourage development of tools dealing with the ever increasing amount of online life sciences information. The team also includes CMU faculty Robert Murphy and William Cohen in addition to graduate students Andrew Arnold, Luis Pedro Coelho and Josh Kangas and research programmer Saboor Sheikh. See CMU news release Spring, 2009: Our submission to the Annals of Applied Statistics has been accepted. It is: Kyung-Ah Sohn and Eric P. Xing, A Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Mixture Model For Haplotype Reconstruction From Multi-Population Data, Annals of Applied Statistics, 2009 2008Summer, 2008 : New postdoctoral Lane Fellow for Computational Biology Le Song has joined the SAILING Lab after finishing his doctoral work on "Learning via Hilbert Space Embedding of Distributions" at the University of SydneyApril, 2008 : One submission to UAI has been accepted. It is : S. Kim and E. P. Xing, Sparse Feature Learning in High-Dimensional Space via Block Regularized Regression April, 2008 : One submission to COLT has been accepted. It is : S. Hanneke, Teaching Dimension and the Complexity of Active Learning. April, 2008 : Three submissions to ICML have been accepted for publication. They are : J. Zhu, E. P. Xing, B. Zhang, Laplace Maximum Margin Markov Networks A. Martins, M. Figueiredo, P. Aguiar, N. A. Smith and E. P. Xing, Nonextensive Entropic Kernels S. Shringarpure and E. P. Xing, mStruct: A New Admixture Model for Inference of Population Structure in Light of Both Genetic Admixing and Allele Mutations March, 2008 : Steve Hanneke proposed his thesis problem for the degree of Ph D in Machine Learning March, 2008 : Eric Xing has been awarded the Sloan Research Fellowship for 2008. See the complete list here. February, 2008 : Steve Hanneke has been awarded the IBM Research Fellowship. |