Meet John Boaz Lee, machine learning researcher1) What do you do?I am a machine learning and data mi

Meet John Boaz Lee, machine learning researcher1) What do you do?I am a machine learning and data mining researcher. My main area of research is in the intersection of graphs and deep learning. Many different things can be represented mathematically as graphs. For instance, we can represent molecules as graphs — the nodes in a graph are atoms and the edges represent bonds between these atoms. A functional MRI scan of the brain can also be modeled as a graph where regions in the brain are denoted by nodes and edges represent a correlation in the activity between the corresponding regions. Given these graphs, we can begin to ask a lot of interesting questions. For instance, what subgraph patterns tend to surface in the brain networks of people suffering from Alzheimer’s that are atypical of healthy brain networks.2) Where do you work?I am a Research Scientist at Facebook where I do more applied research. More recently, my work fall in the areas of graph representation learning and temporal sequence modeling.3) Tell us about the photos![Left:] My dissertation defense for my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).[Right:] At the top of Pemetic Mountain at Acadia National Park. Acadia is one of the National Parks in the Northeast USA where I went to grad school.4.) Tell us about your academic career path so far.I went to high school in Cebu at Philippine Christian Gospel School. I then went to Dumaguete for my Undergrad at Silliman University; moved to Manila for my Masters at UP Diliman; finally, I flew to Massachusetts to do my PhD at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.If the probability of getting a good thesis advisor is 0.25, I’d say I’m pretty blessed to have gotten outstanding advisors every single time (P = 0.25 x 0.25 x 0.25 = 0.016). A shoutout to my wonderful academic mentors: Dr. Dave Marcial (SU), Dr. Henry Adorna (UPD), and Dr. Xiangnan Kong (WPI). 5.) Anything else you’d like to share.If you’re like the majority of Filipinos, paying for a PhD abroad is out of the question — I certainly didn’t have the money to pay for even a single year of grad school in the US. Luckily, in Computer Science, acceptance into a grad school typically comes with a TAship or RAship offer (what this means: tuition is waived, full medical insurance, and a monthly stipend). Read more on how to apply to a graduate school here! -- source link

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