Dennis Farmer Email & Phone Number

Ypsilanti, Mi, Us

• Worked on improving the MDST educational experience for club members by working on an introductory Python tutorial and holding in-person office hours• Developed a challenge assessment for new MDST members involving training and evaluating a deep learning model on the Titanic classification dataset• Utilized Github extensively for version control and collaboration among MDST leadership

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

• Conducted research on the use of structurally adaptive Bayesian networks to determine the causal structure of how scientific theories develop over time• Developed causal inference algorithms utilizing d-separation, the Peter-Clark algorithm (PC), and Greedy Equivalence Search (GES) to heuristically search over spaces of possible causal Bayesian networks, given synthetically generated event data

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

• Implemented and improved on an automated image analysis pipeline using a U-Net convolutional neural network architecture in MATLAB for semantic segmentation of post-traumatic osteoarthritis histological images• Analyzed single-cell RNA sequencing data using R to characterize immune cell phenotypes in post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA) immune response