Michael P. Verdicchio

I’ve still been working, but just not updating this a lot.  Currently I am working on improving Bayesian network learning for gene regulatory network applications as well as generating synthetic data containing a mixture of cellular contexts (see the context mining page).  Such data will allow us to do some quantifiable analysis of the performance of context-specific network inference techniques since we’re relying only on empirical studies at the moment.  Also on the table is further study of identifying context-specific regulatory behavior, causal network inference techniques, and work on the aging project.  Classes start again in a few weeks and I’ll be taking data mining and perhaps a reading group on biomolecular networks.

Sometime during ROCKY ’08 I’ll be presenting the current status of the Causality work I’ve taken over from Xin Zhang.  It’s in Aspen, CO and all the details are on the Causal Networks page.

In the last Computational Systems Biology lab group seminar I presented the topic of causality. It was essentially a survey of the first two chapters of Judea Pearl’s book, Causality. The slides for the talk can be found at the link below.

Causality Seminar Slides (ppt)