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Michael Wagner, PhD

Michael Wagner, PhD

Title

Research Assistant Professor

Appointment

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Email

michael.wagner@cchmc.org

Phone

513-636-2935

Fax

513-636-2056

Bio

Michael Wagner, PhD, works on applications of machine learning techniques to bioinformatics problems such as protein structure prediction, disease classification and protein identification. His research lab currently is investigating machine-learning based scoring algorithms for peptide mass fingerprinting to better understand how to optimally mine mass spectrometry data to make high-confidence predictions of protein identities. The underlying computational engine for many of these problems is a massively parallel implementation of a linear programming solver (PCx), which can solve large-scale support vector regression, support vector machine and linear feasibility problems.

Credentials

Dipl. Wi-Ing.: Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany, 1995

MS: Operations Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1998.

PhD: Operations Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 2000.

Research Grants and Contracts

Title: Biomarkers for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in Active Duty Military
Sponsor: Department of Defense
PI: Millhorn, D
Dates: 01/23/2006 - 01/22/2009

Title: Genomic Landscapes in Large Scale Integrated JRA Studies
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
PI: Thompson, S
Dates: 09/15/2003 - 08/31/2007

Title: Optimization of Folding and Threading Potentials
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
PI: Elber, R
Dates: 02/01/2004 - 01/31/2008

Title: Computational Medicine Center
Sponsor: Ohio BRTT Partnership Award
PI: Boat, T
Dates: 07/01/2004 - 06/30/2007

Publications, Most Recent

McLachlan A, Borchers M, Velayutham P, Wagner M, Limbach PA. Characterizing the reproducibility of a protein profiling method for the analysis of mouse bronchoalveolar lavage fluid. Journal of proteome research. 2006 Nov;5(11):3059-65.

Wagner M, Adamczak R, Porollo A, Meller J. Linear regression models for solvent accessibility prediction in proteins. J Comput Biol. 2005 Apr;12(3):355-69.

Guo M, Wagner M, West C. Outpatient scheduling: a simulation approach. In: Ingalls RG, editor. Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference; 2004 Dec 5-8; Washington, DC: IEEE; 2004. p. 1981-7.

Wagner M, Naik DN, Pothen A, Kasukurti S, Devineni RR, Adam BL, et al. Computational protein biomarker prediction: a case study for prostate cancer. BMC Bioinformatics. 2004 Mar 11;5:26.

Wagner M, Meller J, Elber R. Large-scale linear programming techniques for the design of protein folding potentials. Math Program. 2004;101(2):301-18.

Wagner M, Naik D, Pothen A. Protocols for disease classification from mass spectrometry data. Proteomics. 2003 Sep;3(9):1692-8.

Porollo A, Adamczak R, Wagner M, Meller J. Maximum feasibility approach for consensus classifiers: applications to protein structure prediction. CIRAS; 2003.

Meller J, Wagner M, Elber R. Maximum feasibility guideline in the design and analysis of protein folding potentials. J Comput Chem. 2002;23:111-18.

Wagner M, Todd M. Least-change quasi-Newton updates for equality constrained optimization. Math Program. 2000;87:317-50.

Czyzyk J, Mehrotra S, Wagner M, Wright S. PCx: an interior-point code for linear programming. Optim Methods and Softw. 1999;12:397-430.

Coleman T, Czyzyk J, Sun C, Wagner M, Wright S. pPCx: parallel software for linear programming. Proceedings of the 8th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing in Scientific Computing; Minneapolis, MN; 1997.

Professional Organization Memberships

  • Mathematical Programming Society
  • Society for Industrial and AppliedMathematics (SIAM)

Special Interests

  • large-scale optimization
  • applications in bioinformatics

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