This year’s IDSC Fellows presented their projects on Friday, April 29, 2016. The projects were on vastly different topics, highlighting the reach that computational science has on present-day research. Above is a sample from their presentations. Read more “IDSC Fellows Present Their Final Projects”
The Institute for Data Science and Computing participated in 3 presentations at the cutting-edge technology and innovation event eMerge Americas held on May 1-5, 2015, at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
This presentation by Bertrand Salem Clarke (UM) entitled “Dimenson Reduction (Mostly)” was a review of the basics of machine learning with commentary on the major dimension reduction techniques. Read more “Dimension Reduction (Mostly) Presentation by Bertrand Clarke”
This paper “Nextone Player: A Music Recommendation System Based on User Behavior” modeled music listeners listening patterns using a “forgetting” factor—a slow exponential decrease in the freshness of music that was listened to. The effectiveness of the model was confirmed using a simple music jukebox program that makes a recommendation for the next piece to listen to and allows the listener to “skip” to the next song. Read more “Nextone Player: A Music Recommendation System Based on User Behavior”
In this pilot study, we found a list of genes significantly down-regulated in the peripheral blood in the rejection states in three small-bowel-transplant patients. Our hypothesis, derived from this project, is that down-regulation of translation in peripheral blood mononuclear cells occurs early during the course of rejection and correlates with the severity of the rejection episode as determined by concurrent graft biopsies. Presented at: International Conference on Systems Biology 2010. Read more “Pathway Analysis for Discovery of Rejection Mechanism and Biomarkers in Intestinal Transplantation”