Tien-ho (Henry) Lin Postdoctoral Researcher eScience Research Group Microsoft Research 1100 Glendon Avenue, PH 1, Los Angeles, CA 90024 Email:

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the eScience Research Group at Microsoft Research in Los Angeles. My interests are in computational biology and statistical machine learning. I had my Ph.D. at School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University advised by Ziv Bar-Joseph and Robert Murphy.

Education

Ph.D. in Language Technology, Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA (advisors: Ziv Bar-Joseph and Robert Murphy)
M.S. in Language Technology, Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA (advisor: Eric Xing)
M.S. in Computer Science, National Tsing Hua Univ, Hsinchu, Taiwan (advisor: Von-wen Soo)
B.S. in Mathematics, National Tsing Hua Univ, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Publications

Peer Reviewed Publications

Lin, T. H., Bar-Joseph, Z. and Murphy R. F., Learning Cellular Sorting Pathways Using Protein Interactions and Sequence Motifs, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2011), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6577:204-221, 2011.
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Lin, T. H., Murphy R. F. and Bar-Joseph, Z., Discriminative Motif Finding for Predicting Protein Subcellular Localization, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), 9 Dec. 2010.
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Lin, T. H., Kaminski N. and Bar-Joseph, Z., Alignment and Classification of Time Series Gene Expression in Clinical Studies, Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference in Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology Bioinformatics (ISMB 2008), Bioinformatics, 24(13):i147-i155, 2008.
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Lin, T. H., Ray, P. R., Sandve, G. K., Uguroglu, S. and Xing, E. P., BayCis: a Bayesian Hierarchical HMM for Cis-Regulatory Module Decoding in Metazoan Genomes, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2008), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4955:66-81, 2008

Lin, T. H., Myers, E. W. and Xing, E. P., Interpreting Anonymous DNA Samples from Mass Disasters --- Probabilistic Forensic Inference Using Genetic Markers, Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference in Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology Bioinformatics (ISMB 2006), Bioinformatics, 22(14):e298-e306, 2006.

Lin, T. H. and Soo, V. W., Pruning Fuzzy ARTMAP Using the Minimum Description Length Principle in Learning Clinical Databases, Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Tools for Artificial Intelligence, 1997.

Thesis

Lin, T. H., Learning Cellular Sorting Pathways Using Protein Interactions and Sequence Motifs, Doctoral Dissertation, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 2011.

Selected Poster Presentation

Carlson, J., Pfeifer, N., Lin, T. H., et al. Heckerman, D., Inference of Phylogenies under Covariation and Selection, 17th International Conference on HIV Dynamics and Evolution, 2010.

Lin, T. H., Herazo, J. D., Konishi, K., Kaminski, N. and Bar-Joseph Z Modeling Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Disease Progression based on Gene and Protein Expression, 5th Annual RECOMB Satellite on Regulatory Genomics, 2009

Teaching

Teaching Assistant for 15-381 Undergraduate AI, Fall 2008
Teaching Assistant for 15-780 Graduate AI at Fall 2007

My Erdos number is 3 (P. Erdos -> N. Alon -> Z. Bar-Joseph -> T. H. Lin) smaller than Alan Turing's --- apparently a smaller number does not always correspond to higher impact!

Last updated: 11 Aug 2011