At present I am starting a new lab at the SickKids Research Institute. Previously, I have completed postdoctoral fellow training at the Morris Lab at the Donnelly Center/Banting and Best Department of Medical Sciences working with Quaid Morris and many of the wonderful students in his lab. I have received my PhD in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon in 2007. My main interests are in statistical modeling of genetic processes, network analysis and social networks. See my Research page and Publications for more info.

News

1.   Talk at Cold Spring Harbor Networks Meeting March, 2011

2.   Poster at AACR System's Biology meeting February, 2011

3.   Seminar in the CompBio group at MSKCC on December 15, 2010

4.     3 NIPS workshop papers accepted: presentation at MLCB and 2 posters at the Networks
   

5.      Invited talk at the 6th Symposium on Frontiers of Statistical, Mathematical and Computational Sciences (SMCS), George Washington University, Sep 1st. Slides are here (gws_talk.pdf)
   

6.     Judging an oral and a poster sessions for Donnelly Centre Graduate Student Symposium, Aug 17th, 2010
   

7.     ISMB, Boston Jul 10-15, 2010.
   

1. 1.    Poster on Unsupervised detection of lung cancer biomarkers using biological networks with S. Mostafavi, G. Quon, P. Boutros and Q Morris
   

2. 2.    Poster on Predicting gene function from molecular networks with S. Mostafavi and Q Morris
   

3.     Survey of Statistical Network Models is published online and in print at the Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning, Mar 2010