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I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Biomedical Data Science. My research focuses on developing machine learning and statistical models to solve problems that are inter-disciplinary in nature, including those from the biomedical, ecological, and socio-political sciences. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Zurich, Switzerland in 2019, where I developed new algorithms to improve recommendation diversity and algorithmic fairness. I used graph theory, deep learning, and latent-factor models to build documents representations, explainable knowledge base embeddings, and personalization systems. At Stanford, I am building new machine learning models for personalized medicine by combining biological domain knowledge and large heterogeneous datasets. My research spans both ends of the biomedical data spectrum: from single-cell observations to population health data. I am particularly interested in examining the disparate health impacts of environmental factors on vulnerable and minority populations and in understanding how these findings can guide policy interventions.

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  • Advances and novel developments in environmental influences on the development of atopic diseases. Allergy Alkotob, S. S., Cannedy, C. n., Harter, K. n., Movassagh, H. n., Paudel, B. n., Prunicki, M. n., Sampath, V. n., Schikowski, T. n., Smith, E. n., Zhao, Q. n., Traidl-Hoffmann, C. n., Nadeau, K. C. 2020

    Abstract

    Although genetic factors play a role in the etiology of atopic disease, the rapid increases in the prevalence of these diseases over the last few decades suggest that environmental, rather than genetic factors are the driving force behind the increasing prevalence. In modern societies, there is increased time spent indoors, use of antibiotics, and consumption of processed foods and decreased contact with farm animals and pets, which limit exposure to environmental allergens, infectious parasitic worms, and microbes. The lack of exposure to these factors is thought to prevent proper education and training of the immune system. Increased industrialization and urbanization has brought about increases in organic and inorganic pollutants. In addition, Caesarian birth, birth order, increased use of soaps and detergents, tobacco smoke exposure and psychosomatic factors are other factors that have been associated with increased rate of allergic diseases. Here, we review current knowledge on the environmental factors that have been shown to affect the development of allergic diseases and the recent developments in the field.

    View details for DOI 10.1111/all.14624

    View details for PubMedID 33037680

  • Iteratively Learning Embeddings and Rules for Knowledge Graph Reasoning Zhang, W., Paudel, B., Wang, L., Chen, J., Zhu, H., Zhang, W., Bernstein, A., Chen, H., Assoc Comp Machinery ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2019: 2366–77

    View details for DOI 10.1145/3308558.3313612

    View details for Web of Science ID 000483508402040

  • Mix and Rank: A Framework for Benchmarking Recommender Systems Paudel, B., Kocev, D., Eftimov, T., Baru, C., Huan, J., Khan, L., Hu, X. H., Ak, R., Tian, Y., Barga, R., Zaniolo, C., Lee, K., Ye, Y. F. IEEE. 2019: 3717–26

    View details for Web of Science ID 000554828703098

  • Exploring a standardized language for describing foods using embedding techniques Popovski, G., Paudel, B., Eftimov, T., Seljak, B., Baru, C., Huan, J., Khan, L., Hu, X. H., Ak, R., Tian, Y., Barga, R., Zaniolo, C., Lee, K., Ye, Y. F. IEEE. 2019: 5172–76

    View details for Web of Science ID 000554828705036

  • Loss Aversion in Recommender Systems: Utilizing Negative User Preference to Improve Recommendation Quality The First International Workshop on Context-Aware Recommendation Systems with Big Data Analytics (CARS-BDA), co-organized with the 12th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining Paudel, B., Luck, S., Bernstein, A. 2019
  • Interaction Embeddings for Prediction and Explanation in Knowledge Graphs Zhang, W., Paudel, B., Zhang, W., Bernstein, A., Chen, H., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2019: 96–104

    View details for DOI 10.1145/3289600.3291014

    View details for Web of Science ID 000482120400016

  • Cross-Cutting Political Awareness through Diverse News Recommendations European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science Paudel, B., Bernstein, A. EuroCSS. 2019
  • Bringing Diversity in News Recommender Algorithms ECREA 2018 - pre-conference workshop on Information, Diversity and Media Pluralism in the Age of Algorithms Paudel, B., Tolmeijer, S., Bernstein, A. 2018
  • Aligning Knowledge Base and Document Embedding Models Using Regularized Multi-Task Learning Baumgartner, M., Zhang, W., Paudel, B., Dell'Aglio, D., Chen, H., Bernstein, A., Vrandecic, D., Bontcheva, K., SuarezFigueroa, M. C., Presutti, Celino, Sabou, M., Kaffee, L. A., Simperl, E. SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG. 2018: 21–37

    View details for DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-00671-6_2

    View details for Web of Science ID 000476939700002

  • Updatable, Accurate, Diverse, and Scalable Recommendations for Interactive Applications ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INTERACTIVE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Paudel, B., Christoffel, F., Newell, C., Bernstein, A. 2017; 7 (1)

    View details for DOI 10.1145/2955101

    View details for Web of Science ID 000399087600001

  • Fewer Flops at the Top: Accuracy, Diversity, and Regularization in Two-Class Collaborative Filtering Paudel, B., Haas, T., Bernstein, A., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2017: 215–23

    View details for DOI 10.1145/3109859.3109916

    View details for Web of Science ID 000426967000033

  • Random Walk TripleRush: Asynchronous Graph Querying and Sampling Stutz, P., Paudel, B., Verman, M., Bernstein, A., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2015: 1034–44

    View details for DOI 10.1145/2736277.2741687

    View details for Web of Science ID 000467281500096

  • Blockbusters and Wallflowers: Accurate, Diverse, and Scalable Recommendations with Random Walks RecSys '15: Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems Christoffel, F., Paudel, B., Newell, C., Bernstein, A. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.. 2015: 163–170

    View details for DOI 10.1145/2792838.2800180