Increasing Diversity in Interdisciplinary Big Data to Knowledge
The Meshing with Data Hackathon is June 29 – July 1, 2018 in Engine 4, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. IDI-BD2K co-sponsored the event, which seeks to develop innovative solutions to help address public health and safety issues during and after a catastrophic event such as the 2017 hurricanes in Puerto Rico.
Universidad de Puerto Rico
Recinto de Rio Piedras
Semestre: primer semestre 2018-2019
Codificación: MATE 4995 Sección 012
Título del curso- Análisis de datos masivos en aplicaciones biomédicas I (BBD1)
Profesora- Dra. Maria E. Perez
Requisitos- MATE 3026 o equivalente y CCOM 3030 o permiso de la profesora.
Este curso busca preparar al estudiante para dos objetivos fundamentales:
Estudiantes de cualquier bachillerato de Ciencias Naturales pueden matricularse.
Hoy como nunca antes la investigación biomédica está generando cantidades masivas de datos, cuyo análisis e interpretación tiene el potencial de producir dramáticos avances en nuestro conocimiento sobre la salud humana y sobre nuestra calidad de vida. El análisis de estos conjuntos masivos de datos (“Big Data”) requiere técnicas que combinan conocimientos en Biología, Química, Estadística, Ciencias de Cómputo y otras áreas.
El proyecto IDI-BD2K estará ofreciendo el curso MATE 4995 Sección 23 – Análisis de datos masivos en aplicaciones biomédicas I (BBD1) en otoño 2017. En este curso podrás aprender cómo encontrar grupos de genes sobreexpresados en una condición, como el cáncer. Puedes aprender a crear e interpretar modelos lineales que describen la respuesta a un tratamiento. Verán cómo manejar conjuntos masivos de datos genómicos y analizarlos.
Estudiantes que completen este curso y su continuación BBD2 calificarán para ir a un internado en alguno de los Centros de Excelencia de BD2K como Harvard, University of California Santa Cruz, y Pittsburgh.
Para información adicional puedes comunicarte con la Dra. Perez: maria.perez34@upr.edu
Si aun no estas preparado para tomar BBD1 y 2, asegurate que estas tomando los cursos sugeridos por los Centros de Excelencia BD2K para tu concentración consultando la tabla a continuación:
The IDI-BD2K project is pleased to announce two events with Dr. Andy Cameron, Caltech.
A seminar Tuesday February 20, 2018 at 12:00 PM in JGD-123, Julio Garcia Diaz Building, Rio Piedras Campus, University of Puerto Rico.
A conversation with students Wednesday February 21, 2018 at 11:30 AM Room A-231, College of Natural Sciences, Rio Piedras Campus, University of Puerto Rico.
A conversation with David Boone, PhD, Assistant Professor of the University of Pittsburgh where he will introduce STUDENT AND FACULTY INTERNSHIPS in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at his university through the Increasing Diversity in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Big Data to Knowledge (IDI-BD2K) Program of the UPRRP. A brief overview of the IDI-BD2K DATA SCIENCE PROGRAM will be given. Finally, he will engage in fish bowl conversation with Dr. Patricia Ordóñez, Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Science, and the audience to talk about his career path and DIVERSITY IN DATA AND COMPUTER SCIENCE. Topics will include the Imposter Syndrome, Unconscious bias, and Stereotype Threat.
The Opportunity:
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is offering an exciting fellowship opportunity in data science for recent undergraduate or graduate students (Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Doctorate) who are interested in acquiring a unique training experience involving rotations throughout the Institute to either intramural or extramural programs engaged in data-intensive science. The rotations will provide a broad overview of the data-intensive science that NIAID supports and train fellows through hands-on experience in how to apply and manage big data, bioinformatic strategies, computational platforms and tool development towards the study of infectious, immunological, and allergic diseases. The application deadline is October 2nd.
If you know of anyone who may be interested, please feel free to share this opportunity with them.
Please see the link below for additional information on how to apply:
Universidad de Puerto Rico
Recinto de Rio Piedras
Semestre: primer semestre 2017-2018
Codificación: MATE 4995 Sección 23
Título del curso- Análisis de datos masivos en aplicaciones biomédicas I (BBD1)
Profesora- Dra. Maria E. Perez
Requisitos- MATE 3026 o equivalente y CCOM 3030 o permiso de la profesora.
Este curso busca preparar al estudiante para dos objetivos fundamentales:
Estudiantes de cualquier bachillerato de Ciencias Naturales pueden matricularse.
Hoy como nunca antes la investigación biomédica está generando cantidades masivas de datos, cuyo análisis e interpretación tiene el potencial de producir dramáticos avances en nuestro conocimiento sobre la salud humana y sobre nuestra calidad de vida. El análisis de estos conjuntos masivos de datos (“Big Data”) requiere técnicas que combinan conocimientos en Biología, Química, Estadística, Ciencias de Cómputo y otras áreas.
El proyecto IDI-BD2K estará ofreciendo el curso MATE 4995 Sección 23 – Análisis de datos masivos en aplicaciones biomédicas I (BBD1) en otoño 2017. En este curso podrás aprender cómo encontrar grupos de genes sobreexpresados en una condición, como el cáncer. Puedes aprender a crear e interpretar modelos lineales que describen la respuesta a un tratamiento. Verán cómo manejar conjuntos masivos de datos genómicos y analizarlos.
Estudiantes que completen este curso y su continuación BBD2 calificarán para ir a un internado en alguno de los Centros de Excelencia de BD2K como Harvard, University of California Santa Cruz, y Pittsburgh.
Para información adicional puedes comunicarte con la Dra. Perez: maria.perez34@upr.edu
Si aun no estas preparado para tomar BBD1 y 2, asegurate que estas tomando los cursos sugeridos por los Centros de Excelencia BD2K para tu concentración consultando la tabla a continuación:
Este curso es un curso intermedio sobre conceptos estadísticos y competencias de programación en el lenguaje de programación R para análisis de datos masivos (“Big Data”). En la primera parte del curso, se revisarán conceptos básicos de la Inferencia Estadística, incluyendo distribuciones de probabilidad, Teorema del Límite Central, intervalos de confianza y pruebas de hipótesis haciendo uso intensivo de R . Posteriormente, se estudiarán modelos lineales comúnmente usados para inferencia estadística. Para ello, se introducirán conceptos fundamentales de álgebra matricial requeridos para la representación y manejo de modelos lineales, así como técnicas de inferencia (estimación, pruebas de hipótesis y diagnósticos) para los mismos. Se discutirán los conceptos de interacción y contraste, y cómo realizar inferencia sobre los mismos. Finalmente, se discutirán varios tópicos estadísticos relevantes para el análisis de grandes volúmenes de datos, incluyendo problemas de múltiples pruebas de hipótesis, tasas de error, procedimientos para control de las tasas de error, tasas de falsos descubrimientos, valores q y métodos exploratorios para grandes volúmenes de datos. Se introducirán conceptos de modelización estadística y su aplicación a grandes volúmenes de datos, discutiendo en particular modelos probabilísticos paramétricos y técnicas de estimación de parámetros. Todo el contenido se discutirá en casos prácticos usando R para programación y análisis de datos.
Este curso expande los cursos PH525.1x: Statistics and R, PH525.2x Data Analysis for Life Sciences 2: Introduction to Linear Models and Matrix Algebra , PH525.3x Data Analysis for Life Sciences 3: Statistical Inference and Modeling for High-throughput Experiments de la secuencia de cursos diseñada por el Prof. Rafael Irizarry (Biostatistics, Harvard University) para HarvardX en http://www.edx.org.
Al finalizar del curso el estudiante podrá:
Se usarán estrategias al estilo del Flipped Massive Online Course. Se usarán el primero, segundo y tercer curso de la serie “Data Analysis for Life Sciences” en el site edX de Harvard creado por el Prof. Rafael Irizarry, denominados “Statistics and R”, “Introduction to Linear Models and Matrix Algebra” y “Statistical Inference and Modeling for High-throughput Experiments”.
Ivan Jimenez-Ruiz, IDI-BD2k student, went to our partner institution, the Center for Causal Discovery in Pittsburgh last summer for an internship.
This summer he will present work done at his Summer 2016 internship at the Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing Conference Series (PEARC’17) conference July 9-13, 2017 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
After that, he will be starting PhD studies in North Carolina. We wish you the best Ivan!
Local copy:
May 12-13, 2017
9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Engine-4
SPORTS COMPLEX ONOFRE CARBALLEIRA
Rd. PR-5 Jct. Rd. PR-2
Bayamón, PR 00959
Register at: http://tinyurl.com/BMMPR17
The Brains Minds and Machines Seminar in Puerto Rico will be an intensive two-day course offered to undergraduate students from Puerto Rico. It will be an introduction to the problem of intelligence from a multidisciplinary perspective, taught by postdocs from the MIT Center for Brains Minds and Machines. The course will consist of lectures and hands-on tutorials on the computational aspects of cognitive science, neuroscience and computer science.
Tobias Gerstenberg, PhD
Understanding Why: From Counterfactual Simulation to Responsibility Judgments
Ge
mma Roig, PhD
Introduction to Deep Neural Networks and Applications
Hector Penagos, 
PhD
Sequential information in the Hippocampus for Navigation and Decision-Making
Matt Peterson, 
PhD
Eye movements: The Fundamental Role of Information Selection in the Complexity of the Real World
Tobias Gerstenberg – I am a postdoctoral associate at MIT in Prof. Joshua Tenenbaum’s Computational Cognitive Science group. I did both my MSc and PhD at University College London and was advised by Prof. David Lagnado and Prof. Nick Chater. In my thesis, I explored the question of how people attribute responsibility to individuals in groups, and the way in which causal and counterfactual thinking influences people’s responsibility judgments. Currently, I look at how people’s intuitive theory of physics and psychology informs their causal and responsibility judgments. In my research, I formalize people’s mental models as computational models that yield quantitative predictions about a wide range of situations. To test these predictions, I use a combination of large-scale online experiments, interactive experiments in the lab, and eye-tracking experiments.
Understanding Why: From counterfactual Simulation to Responsibility Judgments
We are evaluative creatures. When we see people act, we can’t help but think about why they did what they did, and whether it was a good idea. Blaming or praising others requires us to answer at least two questions: What causal role did their action play in bringing about the outcome, and what does the action reveal about the person? To answer the first question, we need a model of how the world works. To answer the second one, we need a model of how people work – an intuitive theory of decision-making that allows us to reason backward from observed actions to the underlying mental states that caused them.
In this talk, I will present a computational framework for modeling causal explanations in terms of counterfactual simulations, and several lines of experiments testing this framework in the domains of intuitive psychology and intuitive physics. In intuitive psychology, this framework explains how the causal structure of a situation influences the extent to which individuals are held responsible for group outcomes, and how expectations modulate these judgments based on what a person’s action revealed about their disposition. In the domain of intuitive physics, the model predicts people’s causal judgments about a variety of physical scenes, including dynamic collision events, complex situations that involve multiple causes, omissions as causes, and causal responsibility for a system’s stability. It also captures the cognitive processes underlying these judgments as revealed by spontaneous eye movements.
Gemma Roig – I am a postdoctoral fellow at MIT in the Center for Brains Minds and Machines, with Prof. Tomaso Poggio as my faculty host. I am also affiliated at the Laboratory for Computational and Statistical Learning, which is a collaborative agreement between the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I pursued my doctoral degree in Computer Vision at ETH Zurich. Previously, I was a research assistant at the Computer Vision Lab at EPFL in Lausanne, at the Department of Media Technologies at Ramon Llull University in Barcelona, and at the Robotics Institute – Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. I am interested in computational models of human vision to understand its underlying principles, and to use those models to build applications of artificial intelligence.
Introduction to Deep Neural Networks and Applications
Deep Neural Networks emerged from the idea that the brain could be modeled as a computational machine that processes information. We are going to explore its beginnings in artificial intelligence, and how those kind of models were used to model the brain, putting special emphasis on the vision processing part. We are also going to see and go through its nowadays success in many applications, and we will discuss what made it possible.
We are also going to have a hands-on tutorial, in which we are going to explore how to set-up a simple application using available toolboxes and off-the-shelf libraries for learning and implementing deep neural networks models.
Hector Penagos – I am postdoc in Matt Wilson’s lab at MIT and the Center for Brains, Minds & Machines. I received my PhD from the Harvard-MIT Health, Sciences and Technology Program. As a graduate student I did some neuroimaging and psychophysics work to understand the neural correlate of pitch perception in humans. Ultimately, I did my dissertation in Matt Wilson’s lab studying the relationship between the anterior thalamus and hippocampus during navigation and memory processing. As a postdoc, I am extending my work to test the idea that the hippocampus can perform simulations that shape our decision-making process.
Sequential Information in the Hippocampus for Navigation and Decision-making
Navigation requires drafting a route to a destination and making predictions about upcoming locations to successfully execute that plan. The hippocampus is a key element in an extended network of brain structures involved in these spatial processes. In this talk we will explore the physiological states and neuronal representations in the hippocampus that enable flexible route planning and the prediction of immediate future trajectories. We will also explore how the hippocampus may simulate scenarios that incorporate indirect evidence to shape decision-making behavior.
Matt Peterson – I received my PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara under the mentorship of Miguel Eckstein. Our work combined psychophysics, eye tracking, and computational modeling to understand why each person has their own distinct, personal style for where they look on faces. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in Nancy Kanwisher’s lab at MIT. By measuring our real world visual experience, we aim to better understand the computations the brain uses to form our beliefs about the world and to guide our actions during normal everyday behavior.
Eye movements: The fundamental role of information selection in the complexity of the real world
Evolution has optimized the brain to produce successful behavior within the dizzying complexity of the natural world. An essential component of such a system is rapid updating of world knowledge through intelligent selection of useful sensory signals. Perhaps the most fundamental selection mechanism is the guidance of gaze, or eye movements, a function enacted by a large network of dedicated neural systems. Here, we will explore how the brain decides where to look. In the lecture, we will examine the critical nature of eye movements through understanding the physiological constraints of the visual system and how the information they select is organized in the natural world. We will then discuss how measuring eye movements provides a window into the brain’s moment-by-moment information processing algorithms, access in many ways unique to eye tracking methods. In the tutorial, we will use a state-of-the-art mobile eye tracker in a basic face recognition task to test a fundamental assumption of laboratory experiments: that what we measure in artificial, tightly-controlled paradigms reflects what the brain actually does in the real world, which is presumably what the brain’s organization has been optimized for.
