Speaker: Jaekyoung Kim, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, KAIST South Korea

Title: Inference of Dynamic Networks in Biological Systems 

Abstract: Biological systems are complex dynamic networks. In this talk, I will introduce GOBI (General Model-based Inference), a simple and scalable method for inferring regulatory networks from time-series data. GOBI can infer gene regulatory networks and ecological networks that cannot be obtained with previous causation detection methods(e.g., Granger, CCM, PCM). I will then introduce Density-PINN (Physics-Informed Neural Network), a method for inferring the shape of the time-delay distribution of interactions in a network. The inferred shape of time-delay distribution can be used to identify the number of pathways that induce a signaling response against antibiotics, which solves the long-standing mystery, the major source of cell-to-cell heterogeneity in response to stress. Finally, I will talk about scRNA-seq analysis algorithm detecting biological signals robustly by using random matrix theory (scLENS).