Mark Craven's Research Group

Current Group Members

• Nathan Bollig
• Leo Jin
• Nistha Panda
• Anastasiya Sushkova
• Yuriy Sverchkov

Group Alumni

• David Andrzejewski, PhD 2010 (co-advised by Xiaojin Zhu)
  thesis: Incorporating Domain Knowledge in Latent Topic Models
  current position: Director of Engineering, Sumo Logic

• Joe Bockhorst, PhD 2005
  thesis: Machine Learning Methods for Discovering Regulatory Elements in Bacterial Genomes
  current position: Senior Data Scientist, American Family Insurance

• Deborah Chasman, PhD 2014
  thesis: Improving the Interpretability of Integer Linear Programming Methods for Biological Subnetwork Inference
  current position: Research Associate, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Wisconsin

• Alex Cobian, MS 2011
  current position: Instructor, Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences, Anoka-Ramsey Community College

• Chris Emfinger, Postdoctoral Fellow 2024-2025
  current position: Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky

• Collin Engstrom, Postdoctoral Fellow 2020-2021 (co-advised by Brian Patterson)
  current position: Assistant Professor, Winona State University

• Shara Feld, MD 2018
  current position: Critical Care Fellow, University of Washington

• Emily Kawaler, MS 2012
  current position: Senior Bioinformatics Programmer, New York University Langone Health

• Sid Kiblawi, PhD 2019
  thesis: Augmenting Subnetwork Inference with Information Extracted from the Scientific Literature
  current position: Senior Applied Scientist, Microsoft Health and Life Sciences AI Group

• Kyubin Lee, PhD 2018
  thesis: Learning and Interpreting Models that Map Viral Genotypes to Host Disease Phenotypes
  current position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Virginia

• Deborah Muganda-Rippchen, PhD 2015
  thesis: Beyond Expression Profile Clustering: Comparative Exploration of High-Dimensional Biological Time Series
  current position: Data Scientist, TruStage

• Keith Noto, PhD 2007
  thesis: Learning Expressive Computational Models of Gene Regulatory Sequences and Responses
  current position: Principal Scientist, Computational Genomics, Ancestry

• Irene Ong, Postdoctoral Fellow 2009-2010
  current position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Wisconsin

• Gary Pack, Postdoctoral Fellow 2013-2016 (co-advised by Amit Acharya)
  current position: Honorary Fellow, University of Wisconsin

• Yue Pan, PhD 2009
  thesis: Inferring Mechanism-Based Gene Regulatory Network Models from Expression and Sequence Data
  current position: Research Scientist, Facebook

• Soumya Ray, PhD 2005 (co-advised by David Page)
  thesis: Learning from Data with Complex Interactions and Ambiguous Labels
  current position: Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University

• Burr Settles, PhD 2008
  thesis: Curious Machines: Active Learning with Structured Instances
  current position: Research Director, Duolingo

• Adam Smith, PhD 2009
  thesis: Classification and Alignment of Gene-Expression Time-Series Data
  current position: Associate Professor, University of Puget Sound

• Akshay Sood, PhD 2021
  thesis: Interpreting Black-Box Models using Hierarchical and Temporal Feature Abstractions
  current position: Software Engineer and Researcher, GrammaTech

• Andreas Vlachos, Postdoctoral Fellow 2010-2011
  current position: Professor, University of Cambridge

• Jeremiah Yee, Postdoctoral Fellow 2020-2022
  current position: Research Scientist, Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Health, Wisconsin Department of Health Services

• Matt Ziegler, BS 2013, Programmer 2015-2017
  current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington