Ryan J. Urbanowicz, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Department: Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Contact information
403 Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6116
423 Guardian Drive
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6116
Office: 802-299-9461
Fax: 215-573-3111
Lab: 215-746-4225
Fax: 215-573-3111
Lab: 215-746-4225
Education:
B.S. (Biological and Environmental Engineering)
Cornell University, 2004.
M.Eng (Biological and Environmental Eng.)
Cornell University, 2005.
Ph.D. (Ph.D. in Genetics/Computational Biology)
Dartmouth College, 2012.
Permanent linkB.S. (Biological and Environmental Engineering)
Cornell University, 2004.
M.Eng (Biological and Environmental Eng.)
Cornell University, 2005.
Ph.D. (Ph.D. in Genetics/Computational Biology)
Dartmouth College, 2012.
Selected Publications
Olson, R.S., LaCava W., Orzechowski, P., Urbanowicz, R.J., Moore, J.H.: PMLB: A large benchmark suite for machine learning evaluation and comparison. BioData Mining December 2017.Created Educational YouTube Video: Learning Classifier Systems in a Nutshell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRge_cZ2cJc 2017.
Urbanowicz, R.J., Browne, W.: Introduction to learning classifier systems. Springer, New York, NY. Springer, New York, NY, 2016 Notes: Available on amazon.com.
Olson, R.S, Urbanowicz, R.J., Moore, J.H.: Evaluation of a tree-based pipeline optimization tool for automating data science. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference. ACM Press, Page: 485-492, 2016 Notes: Highlight: Won a best paper award in the Evolutionary Machine Learning Track at GECCO’16.
Urbanowicz, R.J., Olson, R.S, Moore, J.H.: Pareto inspired multi-objective rule fitness for noise-adaptive rule-based machine learning. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Page: 514-524, 2016.
Olson, R.S, Urbanowicz, R.J., Moore, J.H.: Automating biomedical data science through tree-based pipeline optimization. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Page: 123-137, 2016 Notes: Highlight: Won a best paper award in the EvoBIO track.
Urbanowicz, R.J., Moore, J.H.: ExSTraCS 2.0: Description and evaluation of a scalable learning classifier system. Evolutionary Intelligence. 8(2-3): 89-116, 2015 Notes: Highlight: Solved the extremely complex 135-bit benchmark multiplexer problem directly for the first time reported in literature.
Urbanowicz, R.J., Moore, J.H.: Retooling fitness for noisy problems in a supervised Michigan-style learning classifier system. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference. ACM Press, Page: 591-598, 2015.
Urbanowicz, R.J., Ramanand, N., Moore, J.H.: Continuous endpoint data mining with ExSTraCS. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference. ACM Press, Page: 1029-1036, 2015.
Urbanowicz, R.J., Moore, J.H.: Learning classifier systems: The rise of genetics-based machine learning in biomedical data mining. In. Sarkar, N., (Eds.) Methods in Biomedical Informatics, 1st Edition, Elsevier. 2014.