Congratulations to George Dasoulas, our incoming postdoctoral fellow, on being named the 2022 Wojcicki Troper HDSI Postdoctoral Fellow. We are delighted to welcome George in our group.

New preprint on building knowledge graphs to enable precision medicine applications.

We created PrimeKG, a precision medicine-oriented knowledge graph to support graph AI analyses in medicine.

Webster is on the cover of April issue of Cell Systems. Webster uses cell viability changes following gene perturbation to automatically learn cellular functions and pathways from data.

Dr. Zitnik will serve on the Science Working Group at NASA Space Biology.

Yasha won the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. Congratulations!

We are excited to be selected to organize the AI4Science meeting at ICML 2022. Stay tuned for details. http://www.ai4science.net/icml22

Excited to be organizing a session on Graph Algorithms at PSB 2023. Stay tuned for details.

New preprint! We introduce REMAP, a multimodal AI approach for disease relation extraction and classification. Project website.

Owen has been selected to present our research on explainable biomedical AI to members of the US Congress at the “Posters on the Hill” symposium. Congrats Owen!

Hot off the press at ICLR 2022. Check out Raindrop, our graph neural network with unique predictive capability to learn from irregular time series. Project website.

Excited to present a tutorial at ISMB 2022 on graph representation learning for precision medicine. Congratulations, Michelle!

Marissa Sumathipala is among the 23 outstanding US scholars selected be part of the 2022 class of Gates Cambridge Scholars at the University of Cambridge. Congratulations, Marissa!

Hot off the press in Cell Systems. Webster is a tool to infer gene multifunctionality from high-dimensional gene perturbation data by applying sparse representation learning to large CRISPR-Cas9 fitness screens. Explore Webster’s web portal.

Paper on graph representation learning for time series accepted to ICLR. Congratulations, Xiang!

Paper on probing GNN explainers through rigorous theoretical and empirical analysis of GNN explanation methods accepted to AISTATS. Congratulations, Chirag!

Marissa Sumathipala is selected for the prestigious Churchill Scholarship. Congratulations, Marissa!

We invite you to join the growing open-science community at the User Group Meetup of Therapeutics Data Commons! Register for the first live user group meeting on Tuesday, January 25 at 11:00 AM EST.

Submit your papers to our Workshop on Graph Learning Benchmarks organized at The Web Conference (WWW). Call for papers!

Human space exploration beyond low Earth orbit will involve missions of significant distance and duration. To effectively mitigate myriad space health hazards, paradigm shifts in data and space health systems are necessary to enable Earth independence. Delighted to be working with NASA and can share our recommendations!

As space exploration is extended beyond low Earth orbit, experiments must be maximally autonomous and intelligent to guide biological research. Excited to be working with NASA and can share our recommendations!

Join us at NeurIPS 2021 for the AI for Science Workshop on Monday, Dec 13, 8am-6pm ET. This will be a great day to celebrate AI achievements in scientific discovery and highlight open challenges that need to be addressed to move the field forward.

Submit your finest work at the nexus between trustworthy AI and healthcare to AAAI 2022. Call for papers.

Hot off the press in Nature Communications. Excited to share an ML approach for predicting functional interactions between human genes using the phylogenetic profiles across 1,154 eukaryotic species.

The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped health and medicine in ways both dramatic and subtle. Some of the less obvious shifts can only emerge from analysis of millions of pieces of data—patient records, medical notes, clinical encounter reports. Read the story in Harvard Medicine News highlighting our research.

New preprint! We introduce Raindrop, a graph-guided network for learning representations of irregularly sampled multivariate time series.

Hot off the press in Nature Computational Science! We develop an algorithmic approach for massive analysis of drug adverse events. Our analyses of 10,443,476 adverse event reports have implications for safe medication use and public health policy, and can enable comparison of COVID-19 pandemic to other health emergencies.

Hot off the press in Nature Communications! We developed OnClass, an algorithm and accompanying software for automatically classifying cells into cell types that are part of the controlled vocabulary that forms the Cell Ontology.

We are very excited to announce a major release of Therapeutics Data Commons! In the 0.3.0 release we restructured the codebase, simplified the backend and kept user interfaces the same. We also provide detailed documentation for our TDC package.

We will be organizing a meeting on Trustworthy AI for Healthcare at AAAI 2022. Stay tuned for details and call for papers.

Our latest paper on Therapeutics Data Commons: Machine Learning Datasets and Tasks for Drug Discovery and Development will appear at NeurIPS. We are excited to contribute novel datasets and benchmarks in the broad area of therapeutics.

We are organizing the AI for Science workshop at NeurIPS 2021 and have a stellar lineup of invited speakers.

Congratulations to Michelle for winning the Best Poster Award for her work on deep contextual learners for protein networks at the ICML Workshop on Computational Biology.

Our short paper on Interactive Visual Explanations for Deep Drug Repurposing received the Best Paper Award at the ICML Interpretable ML in Healthcare Workshop. Stay tuned for more news on this evolving project.

We are excited to be at ICML 2021 where we will present 1 paper at Workshop on Socially Responsible Machine Learning, 1 paper at Workshop on Theoretic Foundation, Criticism, and Application Trend of Explainable AI, 2 papers at Workshop on Interpretable Machine Learning in Healthcare, and 1 paper at Workshop on Computational Biology. Congratulations to fantastic students!

We introduce the first axiomatic framework for theoretically analyzing, evaluating, and comparing GNN explanation methods. We formalize key properties that all methods should satisfy to generate reliable explanations: faithfulness, stability, and fairness.

New preprint on contextualized protein embeddings aims to characterize genes with disease-specific interactions and elucidate disease manifestation in specific cell types.

Our unified framework for fair and stable graph representation learning has just been accepted at UAI. We establish a theoretical connection between counterfactual fairness and stability and use it in a framework that can be used with any GNN to learn fair and stable embeddings.

Hot off the press in PNAS! We deployed AI/ML and network medicine algorithms to rank 6,340 drugs for their expected efficacy against SARS-CoV-2. We screened in human cells the top-ranked drugs, identifying six drugs that reduced viral infection, four of which could be repurposed to treat COVID-19.

In our survey on representation learning for biomedical networks we discuss how long-standing principles of network biology and medicine provide the conceptual grounding for representation learning, explain its successes, and inform future advances.

We are excited about receiving Amazon Faculty Research Award on Actionable Graph Learning for Finding Cures for Emerging Diseases. Thank you to Amazon Science for supporting our research.

Michelle M. Li won the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award. Congratulations!

Hot off the press! We develop a multiscale interactome approach to explain disease treatments. The approach can predict drug-disease treatments, identify proteins and biological functions related to treatment, and identify genes that alter treatment’s efficacy and adverse reactions.

We are excited to share slides from our recent lecture on Graph Neural Networks in Computational Biology, which we gave at Stanford ML for Graphs course.

We are thrilled to share the latest preprint on fair and stable graph representation learning.

We are excited to share the preprint on Therapeutics Data Commons: Machine Learning Datasets and Tasks for Therapeutics. TDC is available at http://tdcommons.ai.

The new algorithmic approach investigates population-scale patient safety data and reveals inequalities in adverse events before and during COVID-19 pandemic.

We are excited to co-organize Workshop on AI in Health: Transferring and Integrating Knowledge for Better Health at the Web (WWW) conference. The call for papers is open! We also announce the AI in Health Data Challenge.

We will present a tutorial on ML/AI for drug discovery and development at IJCAI conference. See the tutorial website.

We are excited to see published our paper on DeepPurpose, a deep learning library for drug-target interaction prediction, and our paper on skipGNN, a graph neural network for predicting molecular interactions.