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Curriculum Vitae

My name is Craig Fouts :) I'm a passionate scientist/bioengineer interested in building mathematical models of living systems. My current work involves developing in silico methods for anatomical niche discovery in histological spatial-omics data. Previously, I worked as an associate computational biologist in the New York Genome Center's Technology Innovation Laboratory, then as a computational research engineer in the Department of Immunology, Genetics, and Pathology at Uppsala University, where I designed statistical models and machine learning tools to elucidate genomic morphology in spatial transcriptomics data. Before that, I obtained an MS in applied mathematics from Columbia University after receiving a BS in computer science and mathematics from The Ohio State University. Outside of academia, I enjoy inline skating, playing the violin, and building cool stuff.

Projects

Project Ant Farm

Some experiments with self-organizing systems and emergent behavior. Current methods include a Vicsek active matter model, an n-body simulation, and a branching-annihilating random walk. Also a test bed for RunTime, a Python framework for building real-time interactive environments in Jupyter notebooks.

Project Asterism

Semantic segmentation models and dimension reduction algorithms applied to point cloud data. Current methods include variations of latent Dirichlet allocation, some amortized topic models, and a neural clustering process. Also a test bed for ATLAS, a nonparametric topic model for discovering spatial niches.

Project Automata

Some experiments with generalizing neural cellular automata (NCA) to dynamic point clouds using graph convolutional networks. The models are trained to parameterize a nonlinear recurrence relation that, provided an initial "seed" state, converges in finite time to a unique target state via local message propagation.

Project Robotnik

A knowledge-based web application for robotic access and retrieval via IBM Watson. The application provides an natural language interface for directing a Webots simulation of two robots collaboratively operating a virtual warehouse. Users can query the warehouse's contents and submit items for deposit/retrieval.

Project Space Rat

A webcam-based utility designed to provide an accessible mode of computer interaction for people with impaired mobility. Users can perform ASL-inspired gestures for 3D manipulation of objects in Autodesk Fusion and general mouse control in Microsoft Windows. Built for HackOHI/O 2021, where it won first place.

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