Main Focus
My main
interests lie in the development and application of new statistical and
informatics methodology to unravel the architecture of traits and diseases,
with a special focus on, but not restricted to, neurologic and psychiatric
disorders and phenotypes. To this end I am trying to marry statistical genetics
and machine learning methods, extending the scope of analysis beyond pure
genetics. As a consequence of the heavy computational loads many of these
methods are facing, we are very interested in algorithmic and generally
computational advances, e.g. OpenCL, GPGPU implementations on the one hand, and
faster algorithms, even approximate or two-stage designs, on the other hand.