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Probabilistic Models of Structure in Biological Sequences
(2018-09-25)
The machinery of life is encoded in biological polymers for which sequence, structure, and function are intimately connected. This dissertation presents new probabilistic models for uncovering these connections from ...
The Price of Personalization: An Application of Contextual Bandits to Mobile Health
(2018-06-29)
One goal in healthcare is to be able to accurately personalize treatments, including the ability to maintaining overall efficacy in treatment while minimizing the harm and quantity of mistreated patients. With the recent ...
Self-Prescribed Prescriptions: Personalized Radiation Treatment Using Genomic Biomarkers
(2018-06-29)
The goal of this project was to build a predictive model that could correlate genetic features to radiation sensitivity in cancer cell lines. This would ultimately work to-ward the creation of personalized medicine ...
Graph Convolutions and Machine Learning
(2018-06-29)
In recent years deep learning has produced significant improvements in the field of machine learning, with some of the greatest successes resulting from the application of convolutional neural networks to Euclidean data ...
Design of Influencing Agents for Flocking in Low-Density Settings
(2018-06-29)
Flocking is a coordinated collective behavior that results from local sensing between individual agents who have a tendency to orient towards each other. Flocking is common amongst animal groups and could also be useful ...
An Exploration of Two-Party Reconciliation Problems
(2018-08-31)
This thesis explores various two-party reconciliation problems from a theoretical perspective. We define a reconciliation problem to be one in which Alice and Bob each have some data, and their data is in some problem ...
Sketch-Based Cardinality Estimation Algorithms
(2018-06-29)
The cardinality estimation problem, also known as the count-distinct problem, is the problem of finding the number of distinct elements in a data stream that may contain repeated elements. This problem has many real world ...
A Graphical Theory of Musical Pitch Spelling
(2018-06-29)
Based on the conventions of staff-based music notation, musical passages that sound alike can often be written down in multiple ways, with each representation being considered a different "pitch-spelling". In this thesis, ...
Interpretability Through Interrogation: Fairness and Interpretability in the Context of Criminal Sentencing
(2018-06-29)
In this paper, I will explore the ways in which algorithms such as those used in criminal sentencing determinations can be biased against demographic subgroups and the attempts that have been made to correct this bias. I ...
Pointing to On-Point Answers: An Approach for Query-Based Biomedical Summarization
(2018-06-29)
In my thesis, I explored the potential of deep learning for query-based biomedical summarization. Summary questions from the BioASQ Dataset, derived from PubMed research abstracts, pose challenges for deep learning-based ...