Aaron Arvey

About Me

Research interests include inference in machine learning, cancer biology, and regulatory mechanics of miRNA. I am a PhD student at Cornell Weill and Sloan Kettering. I am currently working in Christina Leslie's Transcriptional Inference Lab, utilizing flexible modelling techniques to integrate disparate data sources. I also work in the Altan-Bonnet Immunology Dynamics Lab on a variety of problems in normal and pathological immunology.

Software

I've been part of a few large software projects. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to email me, or the appropriate mailing list. All projects are either posted on SourceForge or are in the process of being posted.

• JBoost is an implementation of several popular boosting algorithms using alternating decision tree. It is very effective at producing reliable, easy to use, and easy to visualize classifiers.
• RepeatMap is client/server pair of programs to determine very specific probes for in situ hybridizations and microarray experiments. You can use the client provided, set up a server of your own, or write your own client.

Papers

Detection of genomic islands via segmental genome heterogeneity.
Aaron Arvey, Rajeev Azad, Alpan Raval, and Jeffrey Lawrence.
Nucleic Acids Research, 2009.
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ResBoost: characterizing and predicting catalytic residues in enzymes.
Ron Alterovitz, Aaron Arvey, Sriram Sankararaman, Carolina Dallett, Yoav Freund, Kimmen Sjolander.
BMC Bioinformatics, 2009.
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Refereed Conference Posters

Markovian Change Point Analysis to Detect Coding Regions of DNA. Aaron Arvey and Alpan Raval. Joint MAA and AMS Meeting Undergraduate Research Poster Session. San Antonio, Texas. January 2006. presentation (Outstanding Poster Award)

Online Markov Decision Processes for Learning Movement in Games. Aaron Arvey and Eric Aaron. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Games: Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Systems. July 2005. Paper and videos

Empirical Bayesian Data Adjustment and Subpopulations. Aaron Arvey. Southern California Meeting of the American Statistics Association. November 2005. presentation (Best Undergraduate Poster)

Asymptotically Periodic Solutions of Linear ODE's. David Nichols and Aaron Arvey. Joint MAA and AMS Meeting Undergraduate Research Poster Session. Phoenix, Arizona. January 2004. Abstract, poster, and presentation (Outstanding Poster Award)

Presentations

Be sure to download the OpenOffice.org if you want to edit my presentations: .
OpenOffice exports to almost all formats (including PowerPoint) and is entirely open source.

• Introduction to Boosting and Alternating Decision Trees [PDF], [ODP],
• RepeatMap: Highly Specific Hybridization Probes [PDF], [ODP],

I'll add links to more presentations at some point in time...

Links

Here are some links to other parts of the site.

• Papers on Boosting
• Shell One-Liners

Here are some links which I use on a daily basis and don't want to have to deal with bookmarks.