Paul Morris, Ph.D.
Research Assistant
🔗 Contact Information
Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
Center for Future Mind
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991
S.E. Wimberly Library
Sandbox
[email protected]
🔗 Education
- Ph.D., Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, 2022
- Computation in Self-Attention Networks
- M.S., Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University
- B.S., Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, 2016
🔗 Research Description
I received my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science in May 2016, and have been a researcher in the Machine Perception and Cognitive Robotic Lab (MPCR) since November 2015. I work with Drs. Elan Barenholtz and William Hahn using deep learning to help solve problems in computational biology.
I believe that neural-inspired machine learning techniques are increasingly capable of modeling biological interactions. My goal as a Ph.D. student is to design computer models which can both be used as predictive tools, and reverse-engineered to further our understanding of biology. With the MPCR lab, I designed and implemented a highly accurate, interpretable deep learning tool for early lung, brain, and kidney cancer detection using targeted RNA-Seq data which can be analyzed to find new biomarkers for cancer. I am currently interested in developing algorithms to understand protein folding and molecular interaction in order to assist in designer molecule creation.
