Joint Data Science and Math&Stat Colloquium
- February 29, 2024
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 CST
- Tuyen Tran, ttran18@luc.edu
- Open to the public.
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Speaker: Claudia Solís-Lemus
https://wid.wisc.edu/people/claudia-solis-lemus/
Affiliation: Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and Department of Plant Pathology, UW-Madison.
Title: Inferring biological networksAbstract: Networks are graphical structures that appear in a variety of biological applications from phylogenetic networks to study evolution to interaction networks to study microbial communities in soil and plants. I will describe the novel statistical advances (and challenges) to estimate 1) phylogenetic networks from genome-wide data, and 2) microbial networks from abundance data. I will conclude with some examples of how deep learning models can be applicable to infer these types of networks.
Bio: I am an assistant professor at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Originally from Mexico City, I did my Undergraduate degrees in Actuarial Sciences and Applied Mathematics at ITAM. Then, I did a MA in Mathematics and a PhD in Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.