Computer Science Faculty
Sergio Alvarez
Chairperson and Associate Professor
Sergio Alvarez
Ph.D.
Contact
245 Beacon Street 528A
Telephone: 617-552-4333
Email: alvarez@bc.edu
Education
- B.S., Universidad Javeriana
- M.S., Universidad de Los Andes
- Ph.D., University of Maryland
Research Interests
Data mining and machine learning, particularly as applied to the analysis of clinical medical data. Foundational issues related to performance analysis of data mining and machine learning systems.
Department
Selected Publications
Physiological data analysis / mining
* denote student co-authors
- P. Putra*, K. Shima, S. A. Alvarez, and K. Shimatani. Identifying autism spectrum disorder symptoms using response and gaze behavior during the Go/NoGo game CatChicken, Scientific Reports, vol. 11, Nov. 2021
Full paper available at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-01050-7 - S. Paisarnsrisomsuk*, C. Ruiz, and S. A. Alvarez†. Capturing the development of internal representations in a high-performing deep network for sleep stage classification, SN Computer Science 2, 318 (2021)
Full paper available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-021-00697-3 - M. Sokolovsky*, F. Guerrero*, S. Paisarnsrisomsuk*, C. Ruiz, and S. A. Alvarez†. Deep learning for automated feature discovery and classification of sleep stages, IEEE / ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Nov-Dec 2020; 17(6):1835-1845; doi:10.1109/TCBB.2019.2912955 Epub 2020 Dec 8.
Near-final version available here. - S. Paisarnsrisomsuk*, M. Sokolovsky*, F. Guerrero*, C. Ruiz, and S. A. Alvarez†. Deep Sleep: convolutional neural networks for predictive modeling of human sleep time-signals, KDD 2018 Deep Learning Day, 2018 ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2018), London, UK, Aug. 2018
- S. A. Alvarez, E. Winner, A. Hawley-Dolan, L. Snapper*.
What gaze fixation and pupil dilation can tell us about perceived differences between abstract art by artists vs. by children and animals, Perception, 44(11): 1310-1331 (Nov. 2015)
doi:10.1177/0301006615596899