Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
EDUCATION
Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
PhD. in Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Emphasis: Large-scale Machine Learning in Biology
M.Phil. in Applied Mathematics
October 2011
February 2009
May 2006
July 2005
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Postdoctoral Scholar; Adviser: Dr. Jonathan Pritchard
Stanford University, Department of Genetics
University of Chicago, Department of Human Genetics
Graduate Research Assistant; Adviser: Dr. Chris Wiggins
Columbia University,
Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Data Science Intern; Supervisor: Tom Quisel
OKCupid.com, New York
4. Anil Raj, Matthew Stephens, Jonathan Pritchard. (2014) Variational Inference of Population
Structure in Large SNP Datasets. Genetics, 197(2): 573-589
5. Graham McVicker, Bryce van de Geijn, Jacob Degner, Carolyn Cain, Nicholas Banovich, Anil
Raj, Noah Lewellen, Marsha Myrthil, Yoav Gilad, Jonathan Pritchard. (2013) Identification of
genetic variants that affect histone modification in human cells. Science, 342 (6159).
6. Anil Raj, Michael Dewar, Gustavo Palacios, Raul Rabadan and Chris Wiggins. (2011)
Identifying Hosts of Families of Viruses: A Machine Learning Approach. PLoS ONE 6(12):
e27631.
7. Anil Raj and Chris Wiggins. (2010) An information-theoretic derivation of min-cut based
clustering. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 32(6): 988-995.
AWARDS
RECOMB Travel Fellowship
Funded by Biogen Idec
2015
HackNY Fellowship
HackNY Initiative, New York
(http://hackny.org/a/2010/06/announcing-the-2010-hackny-fellows/)
2010
2008
2004
CONFERENCE TALKS
2015
Thousands of novel translated open reading frames identified using ribosome footprinting data Biology of Genomes, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY
2014
2013
2009
2008
CONFERENCE POSTERS
2015
Accurate inference of thousands of novel translated open reading frames and dually
coded regions using ribosome footprinting data 19th Annual International Conference
on Research in Computational Molecular Biology
2014
2012
Inferring sparse multivariate models to predict disease phenotype from genotype 20th
Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
2010
2010
Group sparsity in T-cell gene expression during the immune response 5th Annual
Machine Learning Symposium, The New York Academy of Sciences
2010
2009
2008
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2009
2008
2011
2010
2006
2008
2005
REFERENCES
Dr. Jonathan Pritchard (postdoctoral adviser)
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Departments of Biology and Genetics, Stanford University
pritch@stanford.edu
Dr. Chris Wiggins (PhD adviser)
Chief Data Scientist, The New York Times
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
chris.wiggins@columbia.edu
Dr. Matthew Stephens
Professor, Departments of Human Genetics and Statistics, University of Chicago
mstephens@uchicago.edu