Research

My research has mostly been in four different areas. My dissertation with Changhe Yuan has focused on exact Bayesian network structure learning algorithms. These are heuristic search algorithms based on previous dynamic programming approaches. Abiola Olaniyan and I are comparing different structure learning algorithms and parameters. Zhifa Liu and I are adapting the exact structure learning algorithms for use in learning discriminative Bayesian networks (classifiers) rather than generative Bayesian networks. I also work on a variety of computational biology problems with Zhaoua Peng's research group.