VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Luke Carter
dblp:309/4355
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · unresolved
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Bioinformatics and computational biology · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bioinformatics and computational biology › functional genomics
functional enrichment analysis |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | BTS: a scalable Bayesian Tissue Score for prioritizing GWAS variants and their functional contexts across >1000s of omics datasets · Bioinform. 2025 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology
functional genomics |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | BTS: a scalable Bayesian Tissue Score for prioritizing GWAS variants and their functional contexts across >1000s of omics datasets · Bioinform. 2025 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology › statistical genetics › fine-mapping
genetic fine-mapping |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | BTS: a scalable Bayesian Tissue Score for prioritizing GWAS variants and their functional contexts across >1000s of omics datasets · Bioinform. 2025 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology
statistical genetics |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | BTS: a scalable Bayesian Tissue Score for prioritizing GWAS variants and their functional contexts across >1000s of omics datasets · Bioinform. 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
bayesian model · 0.9GWAS summary statistics · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | BTS: a scalable Bayesian Tissue Score for prioritizing GWAS variants and their functional contexts across >1000s of omics datasetsabstractMOTIVATION: statistics from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are widely used in fine-mapping and colocalization analyses to identify causal variants and their enrichment in functional contexts, such as affected cell types and genomic features. With the expansion of functional genomic (FG) datasets, which now include hundreds of thousands of tracks across various cell and tissue types, it is critical to establish scalable algorithms integrating thousands of diverse FG annotations with GWAS results. RESULTS: We propose BTS (Bayesian Tissue Score), a novel, highly efficient algorithm uniquely designed for (i) identifying affected cell types and functional elements (context-mapping) and (ii) fine-mapping potentially causal variants in a context-specific manner using large collections of cell type-specific FG annotation tracks. BTS leverages GWAS summary statistics and annotation-specific Bayesian models to analyze genome-wide annotation tracks, including enhancers, open chromatin, and histone marks. We evaluated BTS on GWAS summary statistics for immune and cardiovascular traits, such as Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), and Coronary Artery Disease (CAD). Our results demonstrate that BTS is over 100× more efficient in estimating functional annotation effects and context-specific variant fine-mapping compared to existing methods. Importantly, this large-scale Bayesian approach prioritizes both known and novel annotations, cell types, genomic regions, and variants and provides valuable biological insights into the functional contexts of these diseases. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Docker image is available at https://hub.docker.com/r/wanglab/bts with preinstalled BTS R package (https://bitbucket.org/wanglab-upenn/BTS-R) and BTS GWAS summary statistics analysis pipeline (https://bitbucket.org/wanglab-upenn/bts-pipeline). Pavel P. Kuksa, Matei Ionita, Luke Carter, Jeffrey Cifello, Prabhakaran Gangadharan, Kaylyn Clark, Otto Valladares, Yuk Yee Leung, Li-San Wang |
Bioinform. | 3 |
| 2021 | Verum Fitness: An AI Powered Mobile Fitness Safety and Improvement ApplicationabstractAt home fitness has rapidly risen recently due to the COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home-orders. This also produced a large set of first time users of gym equipment and structured exercise routines. Access to professional fitness trainers to assist beginners in proper exercise form has become increasingly difficult. According to the National Safety Council (NSC), approximately 468,000 injuries occurred due to exercise in 2019 before the pandemic. Without proper guidance, this statistic is bound to increase. Therefore, there is a need for systems to monitor exercise performance for both short term and long term injury prevention. We present a novel mobile app called Verum Fitness which will use the camera from a smart phone to record a user performing an exercise. Then, the app will skeletonize the user, extract angles from specific joints, and feed this data into a Fuzzy Inference System (FIS), an inherently explainable model, to classify exercise performance. With the FIS, we can provide a description of each repetition performed to determine if it could cause injury and how to improve. From our synthetically generated data, we show a training and test Accuracy of 80.42% and 71.67%, respectively, as well as high Sensitivity and Specificity for the goblet squat. Asia Flores, Brandon Hall, Luke Carter, Maxwell Lanum, Rishi Narahari, Garrett Goodman |
ICTAI | 3 |