Sriram Sankararaman
About me
I am an associate professor at UCLA in the Departments of Computer Science, Human Genetics, and Computational Medicine.
I obtained an undergraduate degree from the IIT Madras, a Ph.D from UC Berkeley and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School before joining UCLA.
I am broadly interested in problems at the intersection of computer science, statistics, and biomedicine. Here are recent videos that summarize work from our lab:
Selected publications
Marginal Contribution Feature Importance – an Axiomatic Approach for The Natural Case
ICML (2021)
[arXiv]
Advancing admixture graph estimation via maximum likelihood network orientation
Bioinformatics (special issue of ISMB/ECCB) (2021)
[PDF]
Automated identification of clinical biomarkers from sparsely annotated 3-dimensional medical imaging
NPJ Digital Medicine (2021)
[PDF]
Quantifying the contribution of dominance effects to complex trait variation in biobank-scale data
The American Journal of Human Genetics (2021)
[PDF]
CONTRA: Contrarian statistics for controlled variable selection
AISTATS (2021)
[PDF]
Efficient variance components analysis across millions of genomes
Nature Communications (2020)
[PDF]
Explaining Groups of Points in Low-Dimensional Representations
ICML (2020)
[PDF]
Scalable probabilistic PCA for large-scale genetic variation data
PLoS Genetics (2020)
[PDF]
Recovering signals of ghost archaic introgression in African populations
Science Advances (2020)
[PDF]
The combined landscape of Denisovan and Neanderthal ancestry in present-day humans
Current Biology (2016) [PDF]
Genetic and socioeconomic study of mate choice in Latinos reveals novel assortment patterns
PNAS (2016) [PDF]
The genomic landscape of Neanderthal ancestry in present-day humans
Nature (2014) [PDF]
Genomic privacy and limits of individual detection in a pool
Nature genetics (2009) [PDF]
Estimating local ancestry in admixed populations
The American Journal of Human Genetics (2008) [PDF]
Honors and Awards
NSF Career Award (2020)
Microsoft Investigator Fellow (2019)
Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award, UCLA (2019)
Okawa Foundation Research Grant (2017)
UCLA Hellman Fellow (2017)
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2017)
NIH Pathway to Independence Award (2014)
Fellow, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley (2014)
Harvard Science of the Human Past fellow (2012)
Visvesvaraya medal for highest CGPA in the graduating class, IIT Madras (2004)
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