MACHine leArning for bioMarker discovery and Prediction (MACHAMP) Lab

Jeremy Rubin, PhD 

Assistant Clinical Professor of Biostatistics

University of Maryland, College Park School of Public Health

Email: jrub@umd.edu   

Welcome! 

I am a Assistant Clinical Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Maryland, College Park School of Public Health. I have been in this role since August 2025, but prior to this role, I received my PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Pennsylvania. My current faculty role is a teaching-track position, but I also run the MACHine leArning for bioMarker discovery and Prediction (MACHAMP) Lab, in which me and my trainees focus on developing and applying machine learning methods for biomarker discovery and prediction of patient outcomes.

My trainees span diverse backgrounds including public health, epidemiology, transplant immunology, statistical genetics, data science, statistics, bioengineering and computer science! We are scattered mainly across the US (with two international trainees - one in Sweden and one in Australia!). 

We develop and apply machine learning techniques including unsupervised clustering, high-dimensional regression (especially lasso-based approaches), random forest, XGBoost, ensemble learning as well as feature/variable selection and data harmonization approaches. 

Please feel free to reach me at jrub@umd.edu if you are interested in getting involved with research in the MACHAMP Lab! 

Wait...you don't do math for fun?!?

So like actually you do something besides math?

Like actually. 

I love seeking out wonderful coffee and food, playing badminton, watching and performing stand-up comedy as well as making puns. In addition to formerly being a member of the competitive Penn badminton team, I hold the following badminton tournament accolades (as well as placed in one pun competition):

• University of Maryland Internal Tournament Doubles Consolation Winner | November 2025

• It's Always Punny in Philadelphia #5: Pundemonium Finalist | February 2024

• Snowpeak DC Open MD D Consolation Champion | March 2025

• PhillyPinoy Badminton Team Tournament Division 2 (Intermediate Division) 1st Place | October 2024

• Club28 Badminton Philadelphia Yonex Cup Division E Doubles 2nd Place | March 2021 

Here is some photographic evidence of me in some non-academic habitats. Please note like any academic who may be subject to having out-of-date pictures, I try to have the below pictures be me from not too along ago, but the below pictures or any pictures that you can find on my website may be somewhat or very outdated by the time of reading this.

MACHAMP Lab News!

2026

• 7/21/26: Jeremy checked his Google Scholar and he hit over 100 citations, woo! Not that he gets an award for this, but he found it exciting...

• 7/20/26: Speaking of 3/3, Jeremy's third dissertation paper was just accepted for publication in Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, so now all three of his dissertation papers have been accepted for publication! 

• 7/13/26: The MACHAMP Lab is 3/3! Jeremy and soon-to-be postdoc Champs Huiqian and Ketki all got their abstracts accepted for travel awards for the Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP) consortium fall meeting in September! Congrats, Huiqian, Ketki, and myself! With Huiqian's receipt of the travel award, he becomes a two-time receipient of the travel award! 

• 6/5/26: Champ Hedwig defends her second BSc thesis! Congrats Hedwig! 

• 5/29/26: Champ Huiqian gets his PhD today, woo! Congrats Huiqian! 

• 5/8/26: Champ Abby has her abstract accepted for a contributed poster at the 2026 International Chinese Statistical Association Applied Statistics Symposium at George Mason University! Congrats Abby! 

• 5/7/26: Champ Aneesh flies the nest/leaves the MACHAMP Lab and is gearing up for his internship as a Deep Learning Engineer at a biostatistics research organization! Thank you Aneesh for your great work! 

• 5/5/26: Champs Ritesh, Advay, and Alec present at the AIM Research & Learning Symposium at UMD! 

• 4/30/26: Alec becomes the first Champ to receive an Excellence in Research Award for his work with the MACHAMP Lab for the UMD Undergraduate Research Day! Congrats, Alec! 

• 4/24/26: Jeremy's 2nd dissertation paper was published online in Statistical Analysis and Data Mining woooo go me! 

• 4/23/26: A collaborative paper from grad school that Jeremy was on just got accepted for publication in American Journal of Kidney Diseases woooo congrats to myself! 

• 4/22/26: Champs Alec, Ritesh, Raymond, Janelle, and Advay all presented at UMD Undergraduate Research Day! The MACHAMP Lab is so proud of your work! 

• 4/15/26: Both abstracts submitted by the MACHAMP Lab from Champs Ritesh and Alec were accepted to the AIM Research & Learning Symposium at UMD! Congrats Ritesh and Alec! Also the first MACHAMP Lab rooftop social!  

• 4/4/26: Champs Ritesh and Chris both have their abstracts accepted for the Joint Statistical Meetings 2026 in Boston! Ritesh's abstract is also joint work with Champs Raymond, Advay, and Janelle! Congrats to the MACHAMP Lab! 

• 3/26/26: MACHAMP Lab does their first hot pot and it was Champ Advay's first hot pot! 

• 3/22/26: Jeremy reached his first quarterfinals in the main draw of a Men's Doubles Division D badminton tournament at the 2026 Snowpeak DC Open! 

• 3/17/26: Ketki Joshi joins the MACHAMP Lab as the first Champ who holds a PhD! Ketki will be focusing on comparing machine learning model performance for predicting kidney function outcomes under pathomic features leveraing different types of histologic objects as well as cluster-level informaiton. Welcome, Ketki! 

• 3/10/26: Jeremy meets Champ Huiqian and MACHAMP Lab collaborator Anindya for the first time in person in Bethesda, MD at the KPMP Meeting and they got dinner afterwards! 

• 2/20/26: Jeremy's second dissertation paper was accepted for publication in the journal Statistical Analysis and Data Mining! Congrats....myself....

• 2/18/26: First MACHAMP Lab meeting in which multiple Maryland Champs presented to MACHAMP Lab collaborator Anindya!  

• 2/16/16: Champ Connie received the Digital and Computational Pathology Honorable Mention (Runner-up) Poster Award for her work with Jeremy and Champs Lylybell and Huiqian! Connie kept a four-year award streak alive maintained by MACHAMP Lab collaborators previously maintained by the collaborators' graduate students! Congratulations, Connie!  

• 2/13/26: First MACHAMP Lab dinner with Sichuan food! 

• 2/12/26: Aneesh Krishna Rao Chepuri and Alec Zhang join the MACHAMP Lab respectively as the 4th UMD undergraduate student in computer science and first UMD master's student in data science, respectively. Aneesh will be the first Champ in the lab to focus on FDR control while Alec will be the first Champ to work on scalar-on-tensor regression! Welcome, Aneesh and Alec! 

• 2/3/26: Champ Hedwig had her abstract "Bayesian Classification of Binary Outcomes from Unbalanced Matrix-Valued Predictors with Unsupervised Clustering" accepted for an oral talk to the Scandinavian Actuarial Conference in Stockholm in June! Congratulations, Hedwig! 

• 1/30/26: Jeremy made his first GitHub repo (https://github.com/jeremysrubin/procurement-biopsy-pathomics-ml) for code related to the theme of the MACHAMP Lab! It took him way too long to clean up his messy code, and the computer science undergrad Champs he is sure could do a way better job than Jeremy can, but you know he's old and has stuff to teach and is a biostatistician, not a computer scientist... Jeremy, inspiring himself with his own repo, starts a software page on the lab website! 

• 1/29/26: Janelle Vo joins the MACHAMP Lab as the first UMD undergraduate student in Public Health Science to be a a part of the lab! She will be using visualization and hypothesis testing identify differences in image features across different sites for renal histopathology data. Welcome, Janelle! 

• 1/15/26: Champ Huiqian just received a travel award for his abstract titled "Integrating Tubule-Level Procurement Biopsy Pathomics and Clinical Factors for Machine Learning Prediction of Delayed Graft Function" to present a poster at the Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP) consortium in Bethesda, MD! The first travel award for any Champ in the lab! We are so proud of you, Huiqian! 

• 1/12/26: Jeremy has confirmed high-performance computing access on the Zaratan UMD cluster and figured out the IT shenanigans of adding lab members, yippee! It's the small things that count...and first lab news update of 2026! 

2025

• 12/30/25: Champ Chris Wu competed in both mixed doubles and men's doubles at the 2025 Yonex U.S. Adult National Championships, and received an incredible 4th place in mixed doubles! Congratulations Chris for such amazing work on- and off-court! 

• 12/20/25: Raymond Chen joins the MACHAMP Lab as the fourth UMD undergraduate and will work in parallel to Advay to explore similar uncharted territory - testing different domain adaptation methods to better predict kidney function outcomes using multisite renal histopathology image features. Welcome, Raymond! 

• 12/12/25: Advay Monga joins the MACHAMP Lab as the third UMD undergraduate and will explore maybe the most uncharted territory for the MACHAMP Lab, exploring whether data harmonization can improve the prediction of kidney function outcomes using machine learning models developed on multisite data of renal histopathology image features. Welcome, Advay!

• 12/5/25: Jeremy checked the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM) website and he appears to be a recognized affiliate! Guess his application was successful even though he never got a formal notification.....

• 12/4/25: Ritesh Reddy Thipparthi joins the MACHAMP Lab as the second UMD computer science major and will embark on the challenging but fruitful arena of leveraging multisite cohort of renal histopathology data. Welcome, Ritesh! 

• 11/22/25: Jeremy and his doubles partner Saipriya won the consolation bracket of the Fall 2025 University of Maryland Internal Tournament Doubles! First badminton award for Jeremy as faculty! 

• 11/3/25: Chris Wu, an incredibly talented computer science undergraduate and badminton player (as well as Pokemon fan) at UMD joins the MACHAMP Lab as the lab's first undergraduate student! Welcome, Chris! 

• 10/28/25: Connie and Lylybell's abstracts get accepted for posters at the SPIE Medical Imaging Meeting in Vancouver, BC - marking the first accepted posters under Jeremy's supervision! Huge congrats to Connie and Lylybell! 

• 10/21/25: Jeremy's co-authored paper got accepted in the journal Statistics and Data Science in Imaging! This is not only Jeremy's 11th paper, but the first project he ever worked on at Penn which was also handed down five times, starting in 2015 (handed off to Jeremy from 2018 - 2021)...and finalized just today! 

• 10/6/25: Abby Sun joins the MACHAMP Lab as the first UMD and JHU graduate, as well as first official Pokenerd besides Jeremy to be in the lab! 

• 9/19/25: Hedwig Nordlinder joins the MACHAMP Lab as the first trainee outside of the US - the lab goes global (at least to Stockholm University in Sweden)! Welcome, Hedwig! 

• 9/5/25: Jeremy's co-authored paper got accepted in the Journal of Nephrology, marking Jeremy's 10th ever paper woo hoo! 

• 8/24/25: Jeremy's oldest collaborative project from his grad school days, "Assessing the Quality of Deceased Donor Kidneys through Post-Transplant Survival Prediction Algorithms," was just accepted at the American Journal of Kidney Diseases! 

• 8/8/25: Jeremy's abstract "Predicting Delayed Graft Function Using Multimodal Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Pathomics from Deceased Biopsy and Clinical Data" was selected for a poster presentation (SA-PO0015) at the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week 2025! Sadly Jeremy can't be at his poster for presenting, but a collaborator will hopefully be in his place and go check it out! Collaborator Luís Rodrigues' work also based on the same co-first author paper as Jeremy's poster was accepted for an oral talk. Apparently only 1% of abstracts get accepted for an oral talk, wow! 

• 7/15/25: Jeremy publishes first-author paper in the Journal of Neuroimaging (https://doi.org/10.1111/jon.70071)! Congrats to myself, you know....because this website is mine...

• 6/6/25: MACHAMP Lab welcomes its first three lab members: Huiqian from the University of Utah, as well as Connie and Lylybell from the University of South Florida with our first ever lab meeting! 

MACHAMP Lab Pictures!