Sandra Batista

Sandra Batista

ASSISTANT TEACHING PROFESSOR
COMPUTER SCIENCE

Engineering VI - Room 277

Email: sandra@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: (424) 259-5077
Fax: (310) 825-2273

RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
  • Stochastic modeling techniques applied to probabilistic complexity classes and computational biology, especially gene expression data
  • Development of efficient statistical methods for large data sets by applying algorithmic analysis, time and space complexity analysis and careful systems programming
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS
  • “Interaction models matter: an efficient, flexible computational framework for model-specific investigation of epistasis”, BioData Mining, February 2024. Sandra Batista, Vered Senderovich Madar, Philip J. Freda, Priyanka Bhandary, Attri Ghosh, Nicholas Matsumoto, Apurva S. Chitre, Abraham A. Palmer and Jason H. Moore
  • “FastLSU: A more practical approach for the Benjamini-Hochberg FDR controlling procedure for huge-scale testing problems,” Bioinformatics June 2016. Vered Madar and Sandra Batista
EDUCATION
PhD, (2009) UCLA, Computer Science