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Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics

 

Associate Professor (Grade 9)

Research Interests: Bayesian methods and Bayesian nonparametrics, analysis of Markov models, and applications to biology and biophysics

 

Publications

Identifying microbial protease allergens through protein language model-guided homology
K Thurimella, E Wu, C Li, DB Graham, RM Owens, DR Plichta, CL Sokol, RJ Xavier, S Bacallado
– Cell Syst
(2026)
101510
Protein language models uncover carbohydrate-active enzyme function in metagenomics.
K Thurimella, AMT Mohamed, C Li, T Vatanen, DB Graham, RM Owens, SL La Rosa, DR Plichta, S Bacallado, RJ Xavier
– BMC Bioinformatics
(2025)
26,
285
The $\star $-edge-reinforced random walk
S Bacallado, C Sabot, P Tarrès
– Probability Theory and Related Fields
(2025)
193,
795
Transfer learning enables discovery of sub-micromolar antibacterials for ESKAPE pathogens from ultra-large chemical spaces.
M García-Ortegón, S Seal, E Geddes, JL Littler, CS Guy, J Whiteside, C Rasmussen, A Bender, S Bacallado
– Chemical science
(2025)
16,
21518
Graph neural processes for molecules: an evaluation on docking scores and strategies to improve generalization
M García-Ortegón, S Seal, C Rasmussen, A Bender, S Bacallado
– Journal of Cheminformatics
(2024)
16,
115
Calibrated prediction of scarce adverse drug reaction labels with conditional neural processes
M Garcia-Ortegon, S Seal, S Singh, A Bender, S Bacallado
(2024)
Tanimoto Random Features for Scalable Molecular Machine Learning
A Tripp, S Bacallado, S Singh, JM Hernandez-Lobato
– ADVANCES IN NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS 36 (NEURIPS 2023)
(2023)
36,
DOCKSTRING: Easy Molecular Docking Yields Better Benchmarks for Ligand Design.
M García-Ortegón, GNC Simm, AJ Tripp, JM Hernández-Lobato, A Bender, S Bacallado
– Journal of chemical information and modeling
(2022)
62,
3486
Preclinical evaluation of (S)-[18F]GE387, a novel 18-kDa translocator protein (TSPO) PET radioligand with low binding sensitivity to human polymorphism rs6971
NK Ramakrishnan, M Hird, S Thompson, DJ Williamson, L Qiao, DR Owen, AF Brooks, PJH Scott, S Bacallado, JT O'Brien, FI Aigbirhio
– Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging
(2021)
49,
S406
Perfect Sampling of the Posterior in the Hierarchical Pitman–Yor Process
S Bacallado, S Favaro, S Power, L Trippa
– Bayesian Analysis
(2021)
17,
685
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Research Group

Statistical Laboratory

Room

D1.10