Publications

Delivery mode shapes the acquisition and structure of the initial microbiota across multiple body habitats in newborns

Upon delivery, the neonate is exposed for the first time to a wide array of microbes from a variety of sources, including maternal bacteria. Although prior studies have suggeste...

Modeling Survival and Testing Biological Hypotheses Using Marked Animals: A Unified Approach with Case Studies

The understanding of the dynamics of animal populations and of related ecological and evolutionary issues frequently depends on a direct analysis of life history parameters. For...

Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement with a Balloon-Expandable Valve in Low-Risk Patients

Among patients with severe aortic stenosis who were at low surgical risk, the rate of the composite of death, stroke, or rehospitalization at 1 year was significantly lower with...

Natural products in drug discovery: advances and opportunities

On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots

The past 3 years of work in NLP have been characterized by the development and deployment of ever larger language models, especially for English. BERT, its variants, GPT-2/3, an...

On the Statistical Analysis of Dirty Pictures

SUMMARY A continuous two-dimensional region is partitioned into a fine rectangular array of sites or “pixels”, each pixel having a particular “colour” belonging to a prescribed ...

Broad patterns of gene expression revealed by clustering analysis of tumor and normal colon tissues probed by oligonucleotide arrays

Oligonucleotide arrays can provide a broad picture of the state of the cell, by monitoring the expression level of thousands of genes at the same time. It is of interest to deve...

Tumor mutational load predicts survival after immunotherapy across multiple cancer types

Intelligent Reflecting Surface Enhanced Wireless Network via Joint Active and Passive Beamforming

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a revolutionary and transformative technology for achieving spectrum and energy efficient wireless communication cost-effectively in the ...

Genome-wide maps of chromatin state in pluripotent and lineage-committed cells

Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Towards Smart and Reconfigurable Environment: Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Wireless Network

IRS is a new and revolutionizing technology that is able to significantly improve the performance of wireless communication networks, by smartly reconfiguring the wireless propa...