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Advances in high-throughput genomic technologies in the past two decades have given rise to large-scale biological data that is measured on a variety of scales. Genome-wide studies enable the simultaneous measurement of the expression profiles of tens of thousands of genomic features, from an ever increasing number of biological samples that may represent phenotypes, experimental conditions or time points. Examples include studies of various types of gene and protein expression, methylation and copy number variation, and high-throughput compound screening assays, among others. Similarly, studies in biomedical imaging and computational neuroscience generate tens of thousands of signals from brain or muscle activity under a variety of experimental conditions across the time-frequency domain. These massive data sets offer tremendous potential for growth in our understanding of the pathophysiology of many diseases. My research spans the two major areas of statistical learning - unsupervised and supervised, as well as survival analysis, with applications in the aforementioned domains. Its principal focus is in the development of statistical and computational approaches for high-dimensional data and includes methods for dimension reduction as well as methods for correlating a quantitative or qualitative outcome variable (such as patient survival time, presence of disease, patient response to treatment) with a large number of covariates (genomic, clinical, laboratory and demographic variables). Our current research activities involve the development of methods for analyzing data from microbiome, radiomics and single-cell RNA-Seq studies.
Research interests
Unsupervised learning methods
- Unsupervised dimension reduction and model-based clustering for high-dimensional data with applications in molecular pattern discovery, biomedical informatics, imaging and neuroscience
- Assessment of technical reproducibility and probability-based methods for outlier detection in large-scale biological data
Supervised and semi-supervised learning methods
- Analysis of censored survival data
- Feature selection and predictive modeling for large-scale genomic data in the presence of censored survival outcomes
- Integrative genomics analysis investigating the association between digital gene expression, single nucleotide polymorphisms, copy number variation, methylation and censored survival outcomes
- Statistical machine learning methods for biomarker discovery
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External positions
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Science, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Affiliated Faculty Member, Center for High-Dimensional Statistics, Big Data Institute, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
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Smoking history is associated with reduced efficacy of neoadjuvant therapy in pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Akumuo, R. C., Reddy, S. P., Westwood, C., Devarajan, K., Barrak, D., Reddy, S. S. & Villano, A. M., May 2024, In: Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. 28, 5, p. 605-610 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Type of neoadjuvant treatment strategy is associated with differential pathologic responses in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
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A phase 1 study of nivolumab in combination with interferon-gamma for patients with advanced solid tumors
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TET1 and TDG Suppress Inflammatory Response in Intestinal Tumorigenesis: Implications for Colorectal Tumors With the CpG Island Methylator Phenotype
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Fox Chase Cancer Center and the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University Present Research at the American Association of Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2024
Cai, K. Q., Devarajan, K., Chernoff, J., Flieder, D. B., Nejati, R. M., Einarson, M., Abbosh, P., Edelman, M., Golemis, E. A., Meyer, J. E., Yang, Y., Mitchell, K. A., Campbell, K. S., Chhabra, Y., Galloway, T. J., Zhou, Y., Balachandran, S., Fane, M., Clapper, M., Testa, J. R., Arora, S., Baldwin, D. & Desai, P. A.
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New Solid Cancer Research Has Been Reported by Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center (A phase 1 study of nivolumab in combination with interferon-gamma for patients with advanced solid tumors)
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08/11/23
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Fox Chase Receives Grant to Study Prostate Cancer Patients Being Treated With Androgen Deprivation Therapy
Devarajan, K., Horwitz, E. M., Ragin, C. & Geynisman, D.
09/15/22 → 09/16/22
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Fox Chase Researcher Develops New Analytical Methods for Large-Scale Genomic Studies to Help Distinguish Cancer Subtypes and Predict Outcomes
10/5/21 → 10/6/21
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