Talks – The DeBlasio Lab ../../../ [archived August 2026] Mon, 26 Sep 2022 03:06:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 Talk at New Mexico Tech on 26 September 2022 ../../../nmtsept22/ Sun, 25 Sep 2022 18:53:23 +0000 https://deblasiolab.org/?p=150 Continue reading Talk at New Mexico Tech on 26 September 2022 ]]> Dr. DeBlasio will be giving a talk titled “Building an Automated Scientist: Three stories of accelerating scientific discovery” in the Computer Science Department Seminar Series at New Mexico Tech (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology) in Socorro, NM on Monday, 26 September 2022 at 5:30 pm. The slide deck used is attached below. This talk will discuss several of the major projects currently happening in the group and the background from Dr. DeBlasio’s previous work that is relevant. The abstract is also below the fold.

Modern science has become much more reliant on computational tools. In order to make discoveries users must not only choose the proper tool, but also configure it correctly. The task of reconfiguring existing tools for specific inputs is both time-consuming and fraught with potential for introducing new errors to downstream analysis. This is why most domain users rely on the default configuration provided by the developers. These defaults are typically configured to work well on the average input, but the most interesting problems are rarely “average”. This configuration is done after choosing a tool to use, which in many cases is a tradeoff between quality and running time. In this talk we will discuss three approaches our group is taking to improve the tools used by domain scientists to make discoveries. The first approach is to help make automatic configuration choices using a method we call Parameter Advising, a second improves the running time of tools by implementing a more efficient solution to an existing method called Minimizer Schemes, and finally we will talk about replacing manually created mathematical models with trained neural networks. 

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]]> UTEP IDR Event on 30 March 2022 ../../../idr2022/ Tue, 29 Mar 2022 16:43:10 +0000 https://deblasiolab.org/?p=118 Continue reading UTEP IDR Event on 30 March 2022 ]]> I will be giving two talks at the UTEP Interdisciplinary Engagement Event on 30 March 2022. My talk, titled “Who needs a manual? Automating scientific tools to accelerate innovation. Building an Automated Scientist: Parameter Advising for Accelerated Discovery” (slides below) will be conducted twice: once at 1:00pm at Station B and once at 3:00pm at Station A in the Interdisciplinary Research Building (IDRB) Room 2.204. The full schedule of presentations can be found here, with the other speakers including colleagues from around campus and including here within Computer Science.

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]]> Talk in the Biology Department Seminar ../../../11oct2019/ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 20:50:56 +0000 https://deblasiolab.org/?p=60 Continue reading Talk in the Biology Department Seminar ]]> Dr. DeBlasio will give a talk in the UTEP Biology Department Seminar on Friday 11 October 2019 at 12:30pm in room 2.168 in the Biological Sciences Research Building. This talk gives an overview of his work geared towards building an automated bioinformatician though the application of a framework called Parameter Advising. Below are links to his slides and relevant publications discussed.

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    • Parameter Advising for Multiple Sequence Alignment. Dan DeBlasio and John Kececioglu. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-64917-7. SpringerLink
    • More accurate transcript assembly via parameter advising. Dan DeBlasio, Kwanho Kim, and Carl Kingsford. WBC@ICML2019. online (open access)

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