Awards
| March 2009 | Awarded a CINF-Symyx Scolarship for Scientific Excellence at the 237th ACS National Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT. |
| February 2009 | Awarded an IBM PhD Fellowship for 2009-2010. |
| June 2008 | Appointed as an honorary pre-doctoral trainee in the Biomedical Informatics Training Program of the Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics. |
Current Research and Publications
| April 2009 | Chloé-Agathe Azencott, S. Joshua Swamidass and Pierre Baldi. Performance Prediction of the Influence Relevance Voter, Clearwater Learning Workshop, Spring 2009, Clearwater, FL. (poster) |
| March 2009 | Chloé-Agathe Azencott, Matthew A. Kayala and Pierre Baldi. Combining quantitative data and qualitative knowledge to score reaction energies, ACS National Meeting, Spring 2009, Salt Lake City, UT. (poster) |
| February 2009 | S. Joshua Swamidass, Chloé-Agathe Azencott, Ting-Wan Lin, Hugo Gramajo, Sheryl Tsai and Pierre Baldi. The Influence Relevance Voter: an Accurate and Interpretable Virtual High Throughput Screening Method, J. Chem. Inf. Model., March 2009. DOI: 10.1021/ci8004379. |
| April 2008 | Chloé-Agathe Azencott and Pierre Baldi. Virtual High-Throughput Screening With Two-Dimensional Kernels, in Hands-On Pattern Recognition Challenges in Data Representation, Model Selection, and Performance Prediction, I. Guyon, G. Cawley, G. Dror, and A. Saffari Editors, Lulu Press, 2008.(in press) |
| August 2007 |
Invited presentation at the Agnostic Learning vs. Prior Knowledge Workshop at IJCNN 2007 (Orlando)
First prize on the HIVA dataset of the Agnostic Learning vs. Prior Knowledge Challenge |
| March 2007 |
Leader of the Prior Knowledge track for the HIVA dataset of the Agnostic Learning vs. Prior Knowledge Challenge. Chloé-Agathe Azencott, Alexandre Ksikes, S. Joshua Swamidass, Jonathan H. Chen, Liva Ralaivola and Pierre Baldi. One- to Four-Dimensional Kernels for Virtual Screening and the Prediction of Physical, Chemical and Biological Properties, J. Chem. Inf. Model., 2007; 47(3) pp 965 - 974; DOI: 10.1021/ci600397p |
| October 4-6, 2006 | Talk at Workshop for Women in Machine Learning (San Diego) Chloé-Agathe Azencott and Pierre Baldi. Kernels for Predictive Regression - Physical, Biological and Chemical Properties of Small Molecules [Slides] Attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing on a Donald Bren School of ICS scolarship. |
| August 2005 - ... | Prediction of molecular properties using kernel methods SVM and Neural Networks Virtual High-Throughput Screening Drug Discovery Docking |
Previous Projects
| Apr - Jun 06 | UC Irvine : Class Project Classification of kinase inhibitors with bayesian networks |
| Jan - Mar 06 | UC Irvine : Class Project SVM for the predicition of mutagenicity, toxicity and carcinogenicity of molecular compounds |
| Sep 04 - Jan 05 | ENST Bretagne : Bibliographical study Kernel Methods and Computational Biology |
| Feb - June 04 | Engineering School of Copenhagen: Erasmus Project International teamwork on a project aiming at proposing a multimedia solution for the promotion of a line of studies |
| Feb - June 03 | ENST Bretagne: Algorithmic and Programmation Project Teamwork on the code conversion of a C program for network traffic estimation into a Java applet |