Alex Rodriguez

MiniFAST: A sensitive and fast miniaturized microscope for in vivo neural recording

The paper introduces MiniFAST, a miniaturized microscope that improves speed, sensitivity, and resolution for in vivo neural recording using genetically encoded indicators.

Leveraging Open-Source Large Language Models to Identify Undiagnosed Patients with Rare Genetic Aortopathies

This paper develops an open-source LLM-based pipeline to identify patients with rare genetic aortopathies using clinical notes, achieving high accuracy in recommending genetic testing.

Accelerating Genome- and Phenome-Wide Association Studies using GPUs - A case study using data from the Million Veteran Program

This paper optimizes the SAIGE algorithm using GPUs to accelerate GWAS on large datasets, achieving 20x speedup on the Million Veteran Program data.

Atlas of Transcription Factor Binding Sites from ENCODE DNase Hypersensitivity Data Across 27 Tissue Types

The paper develops a workflow to identify transcription factor binding sites across 27 human tissues using DNase-seq data, resulting in a comprehensive footprint atlas with high-quality predictions.