Papers and Works in Progress

(with links to PDFs)

Reduced, Reused and Recycled: The Life of a Benchmark in Machine Learning Research.
Koch BJ, Denton E, Hanna A, Foster JG. (NeurIPS 2021 [oral]).

The Evolutionary Dynamics of Cultural Change (As Told Through the Birth and Brutal, Blackened Death of Metal Music).
Koch BJ, Silvestro D, Foster JG. (R&R for the American Journal of Sociology).

Deep Learning for Causal Inference.
Koch BJ, Sainburg T, Geraldo PE, Jiang S, Sun Y, Foster JG (order TBD). (forthcoming at Sociological Methods and Research).

HINTS: time series prediction via dynamic heterogeneous information network embedding.
Jiang S, Koch BJ, Sun Y. WWW, 2021.

Uncovering sociological effect heterogeneity using tree-based machine learning.
Brand JE, Xu J, Koch BJ, Geraldo PE. Sociological Methodology, 2021.

A quantitative workflow for modeling diversification in technological systems.
Gjesfjeld E, Silvestro D, Chang J, Koch BJ, Foster JG, Alfaro ME. PLoS One, 2020 February 6;15(2): e0227579.

Machine learning.
Brand JE*, Koch BJ*, Xu J*. in SAGE Research Methods Foundations in Big Data and Data Science [Flagship Entry]. Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Alexandru Cernat, Joseph W. Sakshaug, and Richard A. Williams. eds. 2020.

The maternal‐zygotic transition and zygotic activation of the Mnemiopsis leidyi genome occurs within the first three cleavage cycles.
Davidson PL, Koch BJ, Schnitzler CE, Henry JQ, Martindale MQ, Baxevanis AD, Browne WE. Mol Reprod Dev., 2017 Oct 25;84: 1218–1229.

A customized web portal for the genome of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi.
Moreland RT, Nguyen AD, Ryan JF, Schnitzler CE, Koch BJ, Siewert K, Wolfsberg TG, Baxevanis AD. BMC Genomics, 2014 Apr 15:316.

The genome of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi.
Ryan JF, Pang K, Schnitzler CE, Nguyen A-D, Moreland RT, Simmons DK, Koch BJ, Havlak P, NISC Comparative Sequencing Program, Smith SA, Putnam N, Dunn CW, Wolfsberg TG, Mullikin JC, Martindale MQ, Baxevanis AD. Science, 2013 Dec 13;342(6164).

The diversification of the LIM superclass at the base of the metazoa increased subcellular complexity and promoted multicellular specialization.
Koch BJ*, Ryan JF*, Baxevanis AD. PLoS One, 2012 March 15;7(3): e33261.

[* denotes equal contribution]