Seminar: Dr. Heng Huang, University of Pittsburgh

Large-Scale Machine Learning Algorithms for Biomedical Data Science

Join The Ohio State University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) for a special seminar by Dr. Heng Huang from University of
Pittsburgh.

Details:
Thursday, Feb 28th, 2019 4-5 p.m
Dreese Lab 260 (Coffee and cookies provided)

Title:
Large-Scale Machine Learning Algorithms for Biomedical Data Science

Abstract:
Data science is accelerating the translation of biological and biomedical data to advance the detection, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases, including the recently announced BRAIN and Precision Medicine initiatives. Sparsity is one of the intrinsic properties of real-world data, thus the sparse learning has recently emerged as a powerful tool to obtain models of high-dimensional data with high degree of interpretability at low computational cost, and provide great opportunities to analyze the big, complex, and diverse datasets. To address the challenging problems in current biomedical data science, we proposed several novel large-scale structured sparse learning models for multi-dimensional data integration, heterogeneous multi-task learning, group/graph structured data analysis, and longitudinal feature learning. Meanwhile, to deal with the big data computations, we proposed new asynchronous distributed stochastic gradient and coordinate descent methods for eciently solving convex and non-convex problems, and also parallelized the
deep learning optimization algorithms with layer-wise model parallelism.
We applied our new large-scale machine learning models to analyze the multi-modal and longitudinal neuroimaging and genome-wide array data in Imaging Genetics and discover the phenotypic and genotypic biomarkers to characterize the neurodegenerative process in the progression of Alzheimer's disease and other complex brain disorders. We also utilized our new machine learning models to analyze the Electronic Medical Records (EMR) for predicting the heart failure patients' readmission and drug side e ects, identify the histopathological image markers and the multi-dimensional cancer genomic biomarkers in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) for precision medicine, predict performance and guide design of nanoparticle synthesis in Materials Genome research, and detect the DTI and fMRI based brain circuitry patterns in Human
Connectome.
Bio:
Dr. Heng Huang is John A. Jurenko Endowed Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Pittsburgh, and also Professor in Biomedical Informatics at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Dr. Huang received the PhD degree in Computer Science at Dartmouth College. His research areas include machine learning, big data mining, medical image analysis, bioinformatics, health informatics, neuroinformatics, and precision medicine. Dr. Huang has published more than 170 papers in top-tier conferences and many papers in premium journals, such as NeurIPS, ICML, KDD, RECOMB, ISMB, ICCV, CVPR, IJCAI, AAAI, Bioinformatics, Medical Image Analysis, IEEE TMI, TKDE, TNNLS, etc. Based on csrankings.org, for the last ten years, Dr. Huang is ranked 3rd among researchers who published most top CS conference papers. As PI, Dr. Huang is leading an NIH R01 project on imaging genomics based brain disease study, multiple (7 as PI and 3 as Co-PI) NSF funded projects on machine learning, biomedical data science, neuroimaging, big data mining, precision medicine, electronic medical record data mining and privacy-preserving, smart healthcare, and cyber physical system.