Chun-Biu Li

 

Recent Courses

• 2024 Fall, Statistical Deep Learing, master level, 7.5hp
• 2024 Spring, Statistical Inforrmation Theory (with Joanna Tyrcha), master level, 7.5 hp
• 2024 Spring, Reinforcement Learning, master level, 7.5 hp
• 2023 Fall-Spring, Stochastic Thermodynamics, PhD level, 7.5hp
• 2023 Fall, Unsupervised Learning, master level, 7.5 hp
• 2023 Spring, Statistical Deep Learning, master level, 7.5hp
• 2023 Spring, Statistical Inforrmation Theory (with Joanna Tyrcha), master level, 7.5 hp 
• 2022 Fall, Statistical Learning, master level, 7.5 hp
• 2022 Spring, Statistical Deep Learning, master level, 7.5hp
• 2022 Spring, Unsupervised Learning, master level, 7.5 hp

 

Current Postdocs/Graduate Students (from Oct 2016 only)

• Sheila Farrahi, master student, "Anomaly detection in bank transactions", Jan 2023 - present
• Bipasha Pal, postdoc, "Nonequilibrium dynamics of motor proteins", Dec 2022 - present
• Nik Tavakolian, PhD student, "Understanding the genomic architechture of adaptation: Fitness landscape theory and machine learning", Aug 2021 - present
• Tobias Wängberg, PhD student (co-supervise with Prof. Joanna Tyrcha, Stockhom Univ.), "Spatial statistical models and analysis of genomic expression data", Sept 2020 - present
• Bursa Tas, PhD student, "Contemporary developments and applications of unsupervised methods for explainable machine learning", Feb 2019 - present
• Michael Ståhle, master student, "Data driven statistical learning for football manager assistant", Feb 2017 - present

 

Former Postdocs/ Graduate Students (from Oct 2016 only)

• Adam Goran, master student, "Beyond traditional boundaries: Harnessing the power of deep learning for enhanced survival analysis and interpretability", Jan 2023 - Jun 2023
• Karin Pagels, master student, "A study of generative adversarial networks with application to paperboard surfaces", Jan 2023 - Jun 2023
• Mikael Rizvanovic, master student, "Coarse graining and out-of-sample approximation for the spectral theory of complex networks", Jan 2023 - Jun 2023
• Jakob Torgander, master student, "Straight to the heart: Classification of multi-channel ECG-signals using residual neural networks", Sept 2022 - Jun 2023
• Daniella Zhou, master student, "The statistical study of clique-based community detection for empirical networks", Jan 2022 - Sep 2022
• Mathias Carlsson, master student, "Discovering characteristics of distinct profitable customers using unsupervised learning", Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
• Hilding Köhler, master student, "Unveiling the inner statistical properties of deep convolutional neural networks through the lens of unsupervised learning", Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
• Anton Holm Klang, master student, "Adaptive density-based method for clustering in situ transcriptomic data", Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
• Laimei Yip Lundström, master student, "Statistical modeling and inference of single cell gene expression profiles", Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
• Fredrika Lundahl, master student, "Targeted selection, a federated learning algorithm for personalization", Feb 2021 - June 2021
• Ruben Ridderström, master student, "Nonlinear dimensionality reductuon from information-theoretic optimal manifold", Feb 2021 - June 2021
• Nik Tavakolian, master student, "Clustering DNA barcode reads from high resolution evolutationary dynamics", Feb 2021 - June 2021
• Marina Herrera Sarrias, master student, "Spectral distance between complex networks using graph Laplacians", Sept 2020 - June 2021
• Hiam Shaba, master student, "Statistical survey of clustering using message passing", Sept 2020 - Feb 2021
• Tobias Wängberg, master student, "Survey Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (SNE) for dimensionality reduction and data visualization", Feb 2020 - Sept 2020
• Jie Wen, master student, "Generalization of density-based clustering method and its application to insurance data", Oct 2019 - Sept 2020
• Carl Samuelsson, master student, "Inferential and predictive comparison of boosted decision trees to classify user retenion on music streaming service", Feb 2020 - June 2020
• Fanny Bergstrom, master student, "Statistical investigation of spectral clustering for cluster discovery and feature selection", Feb 2020 - June 2020
• Thi Thuy Nga Nguyen, master student, "Exploring nonlinear dimensionality reduction using diffusion maps", Feb 2020 - June 2020
• Gonzalo Aponte Navarro, master student, "Hidden Markov Models for speech recognition", Feb 2019 - Jan 2020
• Huixin Zhong, master student, "Multivariate change point detection based on principal component analysis", Feb 2019 - Sept 2019
• Oliver Murquist, master student, "Machine learning for actuaries: Understanding tree based methods using insurance fraud data", Sept 2017 - Sept 2019
• Ellinor Krona, master student, "Investigation of cohort effects in Swedish mortality rates", Feb 2019 - Jun 2019
• Nguyen Huong Thu, postdoc, "Information flow and causality detection", Oct 2017 - Feb 2019
• Yuji Tamiya, PhD student (affiliated to Hokkaido Univ.) , "Nonequilibrium dynamics of motor protein",  Oct 2016 - Feb 2018
• Rickard Strandberg, master student (co-supervise with Prof. Marie Reilly, Karolinska Inst.), "Effective design and analysis of pooled ELISpot experiments", Feb 2017 - Dec 2017
• Felix Martinsson, master student, "Machine learning and financial data analysis", Jan 2017 - Sep 2017
• Satoru Tsugawa, postdoc, "Statistical analysis and modeling of plant morphogenesis", Oct 2016 - Jan 2017

 

 

Main topics:

Data-driven nonparametric statistical analyses for biophysical applications

Keywords: Time series analysis, machine learning, statistical inference, network theory, dynamical systems, single molecule biophysics

 

Statistical theory of information flows and multivariate dependence

Keywords: Causality detection, transfer entropy, multivariate time series, information theory, information geometry, collective dynamics

 

Statistical theory of stochasticity and fluctuations and their constructive roles in biophysical systems

Keywords: Fluctuation theorems, information engines, protein motors, nonequilibrium statistical physics, spatio-temporal variability, multiscale correlations, stochastic modeling, morphogenesis