News

Jan. 2024: I was selected by AI Utah as one of the top 100 individuals in Utah working in AI. Here's a link to the story: https://www.techbuzz.news/ai-utah-announces-inaugural-ai-utah-100-list/ 

July 2023: I have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at USU! I owe much of this to the wonderful students I have been able to work with.

July 2022: Congratulations to Andres Duque and Jake Rhodes on defending their PhD theses!

April 2022: I was selected as the Graduate Faculty Mentor of the year both in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the College of Science. I attribute this mostly to the amazing graduate students I have been able to work with.

Aug. 26, 2021: Our paper on accurate estimation of mutual information was recently published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Paper: here

July 30, 2021: Congratulations to Teresa White for defending her MS thesis this year! She will be sticking around to work on her PhD.

July 2021: Our paper on supervised data visualization was published at SSP.

June 2021: Our paper on GPS-denied navigation using SAR images was published at ICASSP.

Feb. 24, 2021: Our paper on the brain structure of C. elegans was recently published in Nature. 

Summary video: here; Press release: here; Paper: here

Dec. 2020: Our paper on geometry regularized autoencoders was published at IEEE Big Data.

Aug. 18, 2020: Congratulations to Jared, Ronak, and Thomas for defending their MS theses this year and graduating! Good luck!

Dec. 10, 2019: PHATE was featured in Utah State Today.

Dec. 3, 2019: Our dimensionality reduction method PHATE was published in Nature Biotechnology and featured on the cover! See a "News and Views" segment on the paper. You can find the actual paper here.

Oct. 8, 2019: Our neural network method for analyzing single cell data was featured in Utah State Today. You can find the Nature Methods paper here.