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Chris H. Wiggins

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Chris H. Wiggins
Associate Professor
205 S.W. Mudd, Mail Code: 4701
New York, NY 10027

Phone: +1 212 854 1114
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Research specialty

Applied mathematics, mathematical biology, biopolymer dynamics, soft condensed matter, genetic networks and network inference, machine learning

Education

Ph.D. Princeton, 1998

Biography

Currently, I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia. I am also affilated with

  • Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and
  • MAGNet, an NIH-funded National Center for Biomedical Computation,
  • Columbia's NIH-funded NanoMedicine Center for Mechanical Biology,
  • NSF-funded RTG in numerical mathematics and scientific computing


I am an applied mathematician with a Ph.D. in theoretical physics working on computational biology. Focus areas include applications of machine learning, statistical inference, and information theory for the inference, analysis, and organization of biological networks. Click on "bibtex" to find out more about my publications.

Recent Publications

A.M. Walczak, A. Mugler, and Chris H. Wiggins, A stochastic spectral analysis of transcriptional regulatory cascades, PNAS 106:6529-6534, 2009.

Jacob Hofman and Chris H. Wiggins. A Bayesian approach to network modularity. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 258701, 2008.

Lawrence David and Chris H. Wiggins. Quantifying reliability of inferred dynamic bayesian networks, 2007.

Benjamin J. Dubin-Thaler, Jake M. Hofman, Harry Xenias, Ingrid Spielman, Anna V. Shneidman,Lawrence A. David, Hans-Gunther Dobereiner, Chris H. Wiggins, and Michael P. Sheetz. Quantification of cell movement reveals distinct types of edge motility during cell spreading. 2007.

Amy Rebecca Gansell, Irene K. Tamaru, Aleks Jakulin, and Chris H. Wiggins. Data mining for regional prototypes of ancient near eastern ivory sculptures of women. 2007.

Tasha N. Sims, Timothy J. Soos, Harry S. Xenias, Benjamin Dubin-Thaler, Jake M. Hofman, Janelle Waite, Thomas O. Cameron, V. Kaye Thomas, Rajat Varma, Chris H. Wiggins, Michael P. Sheetz,Dan R. Littman, and Michael L. Dustin. Opposing effects of pkc _ and wasp on symmetry breaking and relocation of the immunological synapse. 2007.

Etay Ziv, Ilya Nemenman, and Chris H. Wiggins. Optimal signal processing in small stochastic biochemical networks. 2007, q-bio/0612041