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Featured Publications

Fernandez M, Ban F, Woo G, Hsing M, Yamazaki T, LeBlanc E, et al. Toxic Colors: The Use of Deep Learning for Predicting Toxicity of Compounds Merely from Their Graphic Images. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 2018;(in press).
Wang W, Welch WJ. Bayesian Optimization Using Monotonicity Information and Its Application in Machine Learning Hyperparameter Tuning. In Proceedings of AutoML 2018 @ ICML/IJCAI-ECAI [Internet]. 2018. https://sites.google.com/site/automl2018icml/accepted-papers/59.pdf
Chen H, Loeppky JL, Sacks J, Welch WJ. Analysis Methods for Computer Experiments: How to Assess and What Counts?. Statistical Science [Internet]. 2016; 31(1): 40-60. http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1455115913
Tomal JH, Welch WJ, Zamar RH, others . Ensembling classification models based on phalanxes of variables with applications in drug discovery. The Annals of Applied Statistics [Internet]. 2015; 9: 69–93. http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoas/1430226085

Research and Teaching Interests

I joined the Department of Statistics, UBC as a Professor in 2003 and was Head of Department from 2003 until 2008 and Interim Head for 5 months in 2018. Prior to 2003 I was at the University of Waterloo for 16 years.

In recent years I have taught mainly our third-year inference course, STAT 305, and our fourth-year design of experiments course, STAT 404.   Occasionally, I have taught SCIE 113, which is a first-year seminar on scientific argumentation and writing and a graduate-level topics course on computer experiments.

My research spans computer-aided design of experiments, quality improvement, the design and analysis of computer experiments, statistical methods for drug discovery, and machine/statistical learning. Most of it involves applications in the physical sciences and engineering.  Some of the talented graduate students who make my research programs happen are listed below.

Former Students and Post-Docs

Namesort descending Year of Graduation
Bela Nagy 2008
Dustin Johnson 2018
Gal Av-Gay 2016
Guohua Yan 2008
Hao (Nelson) Chen 2013
Hao (Nelson) Chen 2018
Hui Shen 2008
Jabed Tomal 2013
Mohua Podder 2008
Tianji Shi 2015