Brian Ondov

I'm a PhD Candidate in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, advised by Niklas Elmqvist, and supported by a fellowship from the National Institutes of Health, where I work with the Genome Informatics Section. My research interests include Natural Language Processing, Computational Biology, and Information Visualization.

I have worked on highly cited publications, given talks at top-tier conferences, acted as a peer reviewer for journals like Nature and Bioinformatics, served as a Data Science Mentor at the NIH, and guest lectured at UMD.

Outside of research, I direct the Nerds in Harmony, a long-running a cappella group made up of NIH employees and fellows. I'm also a Yoga Alliance RYT® 200 Registered Yoga Teacher, and enjoy teaching for UMD RecWell on campus and online.


Projects

ML Machine Learning  •  NLP Natural Language Processing  •  CB Computational Biology  •  IV Information Visualization  •  GIS Geographic Information Systems

Revealing Perceptual Proxies with Adversarial Examples ML IV




Exploring syntactic attention in Transformers ML NLP


Learning Microbial Communities with Topic Modeling ML NLP CB IV

Region Expansion in Triangular Quadtrees GIS

Mash: Accelerated Genomic Distance Measurement CB NLP



Krona: Interactive Hierarchical Exploration CB IV