Gunnar Rätsch
professor
computer science
Institute of Theoretical Computer Science
Switzerland
Biography
He earned his Ph.D. at the German National Laboratory for Information Technology under supervision of Klaus-Robert Müller. His thesis is on iterative algorithms related to Boosting and Support Vector Machines. He was a postdoc with Bob Williamson and Bernhard Schölkopf. Gunnar Rätsch received the Max Planck Young and Independent Investigator award and was leading the group on Machine Learning in Genome Biology at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory in Tübingen (2005-2011). In 2012 he joined Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as Associate Faculty. In May 2016 he and his lab moved to Zürich to join the Computer Science Department of ETH Zürich.
Research Interest
Machine Learning Research,Computational Transcriptomics,Molecular Data Science,Clinical Data Analysis
Publications
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Prediction of potent shRNAs with a sequential classification algorithm
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Rearrangements in Arabidopsis Considered as Quantitative Traits.
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RiboDiff: detecting changes of mRNA translation efficiency from ribosome footprints.
