Héctor Corrada Bravo

Visiting Research Scientist
3226 Iribe Center
(301) 405-2481
Education: 
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Computer Science)
Biography: 

Héctor Corrada Bravo is a visiting research scientist in UMIACS.

His research focuses on statistical and machine learning methods for high-throughput genomic data analysis. This includes pre-processing of measurements from high-throughput assays, disease risk models that integrate high-throughput genomic and other data, and cancer epigenetics and biomarker discovery. Corrada Bravo's research interests also include the development of new methods and tools from multiple areas in the computational and statistical sciences: basic bioinformatics/biostatistics, statistical and machine learning, data management, and numerical optimization.

He received his doctorate in computer science from the University of Wisconsin in 2008. Corrada Bravo held a post-doctoral fellowship in biostatistics in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health from 2008 to 2010. He joined the University of Maryland in 2010.

Go here to view Corrada Bravo‘s academic publications on Google Scholar.

Publications

2010

2009


Eng KH, Corrada Bravo H, Keleş S.  2009.  A phylogenetic mixture model for the evolution of gene expression. Molecular biology and evolution. 26(10):2363-2363.

Irizarry RA, Corrada Bravo H.  2009.  Model-based quality assessment and base-calling for second-generation sequencing data. Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers.
:184-184.

2008

2007


Corrada Bravo H, Ramakrishnan R.  2007.  Optimizing mpf queries. Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data - SIGMOD '07.
:701-701.

2005