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Curriculum Vitae

My name is Craig Fouts :) I am an enthusiastic scientist/engineer interested in building mathematical descriptions of living systems in the context of biomedical data. As a doctoral student in the Biological Control Systems Lab at Imperial College London, I develop computational frameworks that characterize minimal design principles and structural motifs found in stable host-microbiome ecosystems. Previously, I worked in the New York Genome Center's Technology Innovation Lab, where I helped create statistical models and machine learning tools used to study genomic morphology in spatial transcriptomics data. Before that, I received my master's in applied mathematics from Columbia University after studying computer science and theoretical mathematics at The Ohio State University. Outside of research, I enjoy inline skating, playing the violin, and building cool stuff.

Projects

Project Ant Farm

A compilation of my experiments with self-organizing systems and emergent behavior. Current methods include a Brownian motion algorithm, a Vicsek active matter model, and a branching-and-annihilating random walk. Also a test bed for RunTime, a framework for building real-time interactive environments in Jupyter notebooks.

Project Asterism

Implementations of semantic segmentation algorithms and dimension reduction models applied to point cloud data. Methods include variations of latent Dirichlet allocation, some amortized topic models, and a neural clustering process. Also a test bed for ATLAS, an adaptable topic model for discovering latent anatomical structures.

Project Automata

The source code for neural particle automata, a generalization of neural cellular automata to dynamic point clouds using graph convolutional networks. The model is trained to parameterize a nonlinear recurrence relation that, provided an initial "seed" state, converges to a unique target configuration using local message propagation.

Project Robotnik

A knowledge-based web application for robotic access and retrieval using IBM Watson. The application provides an interface for textual communication with a Webots simulation of two robots collaboratively operating a virtual warehouse. The user can submit queries about the warehouse's contents as well as request items for retrieval.

Project Space Rat

A webcam-based utility designed to provide an accessible mode of computer interaction for people with impaired mobility. The user can perform ASL-inspired hand gestures for 3D control in Autodesk Fusion as well as general mouse control in Microsoft Windows. Originally developed for HackOHI/O 2021, where it won first place.

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