This was my personal website during my time as a PhD student at the Institute for Computational Medicine and the Applied Mathematics and Statistics Department of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. The website stopped being updated in November 2012, when I became a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Rockville, MD.
My PhD research focused on learning graphical models within small-sample scenarios, with a particular emphasis in applications to computational biology and bioinformatics.
Center for Imaging Science, Clark 307C (map)
The Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218-2686
Email: sanchez 'at' cis 'dot' jhu 'dot' edu
Latest news
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November 2012: I became a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Elnitski lab of the National Human Genome Research Institute in Rockville, MD.
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19 October 2012: I will present this poster at the 7th Annual Machine Learning Symposium organized by the New York Academy of Sciences.
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8 October 2012: I successfully defended my dissertation "Small Sample Learning of Multivariate Distributions with Compositional Graphical Models".
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July 2012: I presented my research to Dr. Warren's group at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in Bethesda, MD.
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May 2012: I presented my research to Dr. Elnitski's group at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Rockville, MD.
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April 2012: Our paper "Learning multivariate distributions by competitive assembly of marginals" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions in Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
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January 2012: This semester I will be a TA for the course 'Probability and Statistics for the Life Sciences'. If you are a student, you can access the course contents through JHU Blackboard.
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December 2011: I attended NIPS in Granada, Spain. I presented a poster on learning transcriptional networks in E. coli at the Workshop on Machine Learning for Computational Biology.
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October 2011: My advisor Don Geman presented some of our work at the IMA workshop on "Large Graphs: Modeling, Algorithms and Applications". A video of his presentation can be found here.
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September 2011: This semester I will be a TA for the courses 'Topics in Bioinformatics' and 'Monte Carlo Simulation'.
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June 2011: I attended the ICML conference in Seattle.