List of talks and presentations

2025

  • JSM2025, Nashville, TN - Ecological Modeling via Bayesian Nonparametric Species Sampling Priors - Invited talk - The Savage Dissertation Award.

  • BNP14, Los Angeles, CA - Topography-dependent mutational signature analysis via Poisson process factorization - Contributed talk

  • ENAR2025, New Orleans, LA - Compressive Bayesian non-negative matrix factorization for mutational signature analysis. - Contributed talk

  • Brown University, Data Science Initiative, Providence, RI, USA - Compressive Bayesian non-negative matrix factorization for mutational signature analysis. - Invited seminar Video

2024

  • Cattolica University of the Sacred Hearth, Milan, Italy - Compressive Bayesian non-negative matrix factorization for mutational signature analysis. - Invited seminar

  • ICSDS2024, Nice, France - Compressive Bayesian non-negative matrix factorization for mutational signature analysis. - Contributed talk

  • ISBA2024, Venice, Italy - Compressive Bayesian non-negative matrix factorization for mutational signature analysis. - Invited talk

  • ISBA2024, Venice, Italy - Bayesian nonparametric modeling of latent partitions via Stirling-gamma priors. - Poster

2023

  • CMstat2023, Berlin, Germany - Bayesian nonparametric modeling of latent partitions via Stirling-gamma priors. - Invited talk

  • EcoSta2023, Tokyo, Japan - Bayesian nonparametric modeling of latent partitions via Stirling-gamma priors. - Invited talk

  • NESS2023, Boston, MA, USA - Bayesian nonparametric modeling of latent partitions via Stirling-gamma priors. - Invited talk

2022

  • CMstat2022, London, UK - Inferring taxonomic placement from DNA barcoding aiding in discovery of new taxa. - Invited talk

  • BNP13, Puerto Varas, Chile - Bayesian nonparametric modeling of latent partitions via Stirling-gamma priors. - Poster

  • ISBA2022, Montreal, Canada - Inferring taxonomic placement from DNA barcoding aiding in discovery of new taxa. - Poster

  • Luomos SYKE Machine Learning seminar II, Virtual - Taxonomic classification methods for DNA sequences. - Contributed talk

2021

  • ISBA2021, virtual - Bayesian modeling of sequential discoveries. - Contributed talk

  • ISBA2021, virtual - Inferring taxonomic placement from DNA barcoding aiding in discovery of new taxa. - Contributed talk

Sessions organized and chaired

  • JSM2025, Nashville, TN. Organizer and chair of Advances in Bayesian Facotrization methods in Genomics and Medicine, invited session . Speakers:
    • Adolphus Wagala, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - Bayesian boolean matrix factorization for copy number alterations in multiple myeloma.
    • Jonathan Huggins, Boston Univeristy - Structurally aware robust rank selection for probabilistic matrix factorization.
    • Sarah Urbut, Broad Institute <– Replaced by me.
    • Niccolo Anceschi, Duke University - Spectral decomposition-assisted multi-study factor analysis.
    • Discussion by Peter Carbonetto, The University of Chicago University.
  • ISBA2024, Venice, Italy. Organizer and chair of Bayesian methods in Ecology, invited session . Speakers:
    • Bokgyeong Kang, Duke University - Analyzing whale calls through Hawkes processes modeling.
    • Michele Peruzzi, University of Michigan - Bayesian multi-species N-mixture models for large scale spatial data in community ecology.
    • Narmadha M. Mohankumar, Pacific Northwest National Lab. - Using machine learning to model nontraditional spatial dependence in occupancy data.

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