Matan Ninio
I'm part of the Bio-Information lab and the Machine Learning lab and I work with Dr. Nir Friedman
Research Interests
my research interests include molecular evolution, phylogenetic tree reconstruction and learning in high dimensional spaces from data.Thesis
my master's thesis, entitled "A Structural EM Algorithm for Phylogenetic Inference" can be found here ( in pdf format and in compressed Postscript formatPublications
- Data
Perturbation for Escaping Local Maxima in Learning with Gal Elidan, Nir Friedman and Dale Schuurmans, AAAI02.
JPG poster version (1.33 MB) - A Structural EM Algorithm for Phylogentic Inference with N. Friedman, I. Pe'er, and T. Pupko.
- Journal of Computational Biology, 9:331-353, 2002.
PostScript,
PDF.
- Data Perturbation for Escaping Local Maxima in Learning with G. Elidan, N. Friedman, and D. Schuurmans.
- In Eighteenth
National Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2002.
PostScript, PDF,
Web Supplement
(with code).
- A Structural EM Algorithm for Phylogentic Inference with N. Friedman, I. Pe'er, and T. Pupko.
- In Proc. Fifth Annual Inter. Conf. on Computational Molecular Biology
(RECOMB), 2001.
PostScript,
PDF.
Teaching
I'm currently a teaching assistant in the Computer Construction course, here at the department.Personal
I live with my wife Efrat in Jerusalem, in an apartment we share with two cats, Shalom and George
here is a picture from our wedding in New York City, on 13th of August, 2002
scuba
I'm a very enthusiastic scuba-diver, and I try to be underwater about as much as I can possibly afford. I mainly dive in Eilat, but try to get the Med whenever the conditions are right (mainly winter).
I've
put up
some dive related material, including an
underwater map
of Eilat and information about the
first documented sighting of a Great
White Shark in the north of the Red Sea.
you can Email me at mailto:matan@site.ninio.org