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Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayla-boguslav-phd-30402239/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=uoZM37sAAAAJ
Education
- University of Colorado Anshcutz Medical Campus, Computational Bioscience, PhD
- Columbia University, Mathematics, BA
- Jewish Theological Seminary, Jewish Thought, BA
About
I am a postdoctoral fellow at CSU in the math department. I am working with the Data Science Research Institute to help researchers fine tune their questions and form new collaborations. I am also working with and learning about Veterinary health records.
I just received my PhD from the University of Colorado Anschutz medical school in computational biosciences. My research sought to explore the state of known unknowns or known gaps in our current scientific knowledge. I did so by revealing and exploring such statements from the scientific literature such as controversies, future work, and hypotheses. I created a taxonomy of how these are discussed, automated the identification of such statements, and then created a knowledge-base (an ignorance-base) to discover new connections based on such statements. I did all of this in the prenatal nutrition field and found novel connections between vitamin D and brain development. I believe that this work generalizes beyond that field though.
Publications
- Creating an ignorance-base: Exploring known unknowns in the scientific literatureJournal of Biomedical Informatics, 2023
- Identifying and classifying goals for scientific knowledgeBioinformatics Advances, 2021
- Concept recognition as a machine translation problemBMC bioinformatics, 2021
- Semantic Changepoint Detection for Finding Potentially Novel Research PublicationsBIOCOMPUTING 2021: Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium, 2020
- Improving precision in concept normalizationPACIFIC SYMPOSIUM ON BIOCOMPUTING 2018: Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium, 2018
- Simulating heterogeneous populations using Boolean modelsBMC Systems Biology, 2018
- Inter-Annotator Agreement and the Upper Limit on Machine Performance: Evidence from Biomedical Natural Language Processing.Studies in health technology and informatics, 2017
- Knowledge-base-enriched relation extractionProceedings of the Sixth BioCreative Challenge Evaluation Workshop. Bethesda, MD USA, 2017
- Evolutionarily Stable Strategies for the Game “Shooting Fingers”, with Different PayoffsAlabama Journal of Mathematics, 2013