Yakir Reshef

Email: firstname.lastname@weizmann.ac.il

I am a Fulbright scholar in the Department of Applied Math and Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science. I am interested in using mathematics, statistics, and computer science to develop methods for making sense of large datasets in fields like genomics, neuroscience, and public health.

In 2009, I graduated from Harvard College with a BA in mathematics. I wrote my undergraduate thesis with Salil Vadhan.

Publications

D. Reshef*, Y. Reshef*, H. Finucane, S. Grossman, G. McVean, P. Turnbaugh, E. Lander, M. Mitzenmacher**, P. Sabeti** (*,** these authors contributed equally)
Detecting novel associations in large datasets
Science 2011.
[abstract] [bibtex] [paper website] [accompanying Science perspective]

B. Kirkpatrick, Y. Reshef, H. Finucane, H. Jiang, B. Zhu, R. Karp
Algorithms for comparing pedigree graphs
Journal of Computiational Biology (to appear).
[pre-print on arXiv] [bibtex]

Y. Reshef, S. Vadhan
On extractors and exposure-resilient functions for sublogarithmic entropy
Random Structures and Algorithms (to appear).
[pre-print on arXiv] [bibtex]

Y. Reshef
On resilient and exposure-resilient functions
My undergraduate thesis, advised by Salil Vadhan.
[pdf] [bibtex]