Hello ^_^, I am a Ph.D (well, it feels quite good to omit the word "candidate" now).
I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Lenore J. Cowen.
I graduated from
USTC
with a B.E.
(thesis advisor: Prof. Tianzi Jiang)
in Electronic Engineering and Information Science and a dual B.A.
(thesis advisor: Prof. Zun Wu)
in Finance.
(May 4th, 2015) I will move to Seattle this Summer
for a machine learning scientist internship position in Amazon.
(Jan 22nd, 2015) Our paper "Clinical Vestibular Testing Assessed with Machine Learning Algorithms" is published in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.
See here
for more details.
(July 15th, 2014) I presented our paper
"New Directions for Diffusion-Based Network Prediction of Protein Function: Incorporating Pathways with Confidence"
at ISMB 2014. See here for more
details.
(April 9th, 2014) Our new DSD paper is conditionally
accepted by ISMB 2014. See here for more
details.
(Oct 23rd, 2013) Our DSD paper is published on PLoS ONE! See
here
for more details ^-^.
Conducting
RESEARCH
was an exciting experience to me and thus I am here to obtain more.
Bio-informatics and machine learning are two fields I am involved the most,
but to learn math and apply math should be more accurate definition of my work.
The following are the topics I am interested in most recently:
When should we NOT transfer functional annotation between sequence paralogs?
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), 2017
Cao M, Cowen L supporting material
Designing Exit Frequency Distance Measures for Biological Networks.
Abstract appears at SIAM workshop on Network Science, 2016
[pdf]
Beveridge A, Cao M, Redlich A, Cowen L
Clinical Vestibular Testing Assessed with Machine Learning Algorithms.
JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Volume 141(4), 2015
[pdf]
Priesol A, Cao M, Brodley C, Lewis R supporting material
New Directions for Diffusion-Based Network Prediction of Protein Function: Incorporating Pathways with Confidence.
Bioinformatics, Volume 30(12), i219-i227, 2014
[pdf]
Cao M, Pietras C.M, Feng X, Doroschak K, Schaffner T, Park J, Zhang H, Cowen L, Hescott B supporting website
(a talk is given in International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, July 2014)
Going the distance for protein function prediction. PLOS ONE, Volume 8, e76339, 2013 [pdf] Cao M, Zhang H, Daniels N, Park J, Crovella M, Cowen L, Hescott B supporting website
(a poster is presented in Computational Aspects of Biological Information 2013 at Microsoft Research New England)
Remote homology detection on alpha-structural proteins using simulated evolution.
In Proceeding ACM-BCB 2012
[pdf] Cao M and Cowen L supporting website
(a talk is given in ACM-BCB 2012)
New Directions for Diffusion-Based Network Prediction of Protein Function: Incorporating Pathways with Confidence
The 22nd Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology 2014
Remote homology detection on alpha-structural proteins using simulated evolution
The 5th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics 2012