John Harer, Professor of Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering
 Professor Harer's primary research is in the use of geometric, combinatorial and computational techniques to study a variety of problems in data analysis, shape recognition, image segmentation, tracking, cyber security, ioT, biological networks and gene expression. - Contact Info:
Teaching (Fall 2019):
- MATH 412.01, TOPOLOGICAL DATA ANALYSIS
Synopsis
- Physics 259, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
- (also cross-listed as MATH 713.01)
- Education:
| Ph.D. | University of California at Berkeley | 1979 |
| BS | Haverford College | 1974 |
| B.A. | Haverford College | 1974 |
- Specialties:
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Topology
Geometry
Mathematical Biology
Applied Math
- Research Interests: Computational Topology, Computational Biology, Algorithms
Current projects:
Biochronicity, Computational Topology, Statistical Topology, Self-Healing Networks, Network Inference, Geometric Image Analysis Professor Harer's primary research is in the use of geometric, combinatorial and computational techniques to study a variety of problems in data analysis, shape recognition, image segmentation, tracking, brain imaging, biological networks and gene expression.
- Areas of Interest:
- Computational Biology
Computational Topology
Dynamics on Networks
Algorithms
- Keywords:
- Algorithms • Automatic Data Processing • Biomass • Chromosome Mapping • Crosses, Genetic • Genome, Plant • Genotype • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted • Imaging, Three-Dimensional • Inbreeding • Models, Biological • Multivariate Analysis • Oryza sativa • Phenotype • Plant Roots • Principal Component Analysis • Quantitative Trait Loci • Quantitative Trait, Heritable • Recombination, Genetic • Reproducibility of Results • Software • Workflow
- Curriculum Vitae
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Christopher Traile
- Hamza Ghadyali
- Colbert Sesanker
- Darryl Wade
- Postdocs Mentored
- Henry Adams (2014 - 2015)
- Francis Motta (2014/12-present)
- Justin Curry (2014/12-present)
- Anastasia Deckard (2014/12-present)
- Ellen Gasparovic (2013 - 2015)
- Xin Guo (2013 - 2014)
- Xin Guo (2013 - 2015)
- Omer Bobrowski (2012 - 2014)
- Joshua Vogelstein (2012 - 2014)
- Jurgen Sladeczek (2011 - 2015)
- Jose' Perea (2011 - 2015)
- Kevin McGoff (2011 - 2015)
- Nate Strawn (2011 - 2015)
- Paul Bendich (January 01, 2011 - present)
- Chris Topp (2009 - 2011)
- Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi (2007 - 2011)
- Yuriy Mileyko (2008 - 2011)
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- Tralie, CJ; Bendich, P; Harer, J, Multi-Scale Geometric Summaries for Similarity-Based Sensor Fusion,
Ieee Aerospace Conference Proceedings, vol. 2019-March
(March, 2019) [doi] [abs]
- Tralie, CJ; Smith, A; Borggren, N; Hineman, J; Bendich, P; Zulch, P; Harer, J, Geometric cross-modal comparison of heterogeneous sensor data,
Ieee Aerospace Conference Proceedings, vol. 2018-March
(June, 2018),
pp. 1-10, IEEE [doi] [abs]
- Garagić, D; Peskoe, J; Liu, F; Claffey, MS; Bendich, P; Hineman, J; Borggren, N; Harer, J; Zulch, P; Rhodes, BJ, Upstream fusion of multiple sensing modalities using machine learning and topological analysis: An initial exploration,
Ieee Aerospace Conference Proceedings, vol. 2018-March
(June, 2018),
pp. 1-8, IEEE, ISBN 9781538620144 [doi] [abs]
- Bendich, P; Gasparovic, E; Harer, J; Tralie, CJ, Scaffoldings and Spines: Organizing High-Dimensional Data Using Cover Trees, Local Principal Component Analysis, and Persistent Homology, vol. 13
(January, 2018),
pp. 93-114 [doi] [abs]
- Hughes, ME; Abruzzi, KC; Allada, R; Anafi, R; Arpat, AB; Asher, G; Baldi, P; de Bekker, C; Bell-Pedersen, D; Blau, J; Brown, S; Ceriani, MF; Chen, Z; Chiu, JC; Cox, J; Crowell, AM; DeBruyne, JP; Dijk, D-J; DiTacchio, L; Doyle, FJ; Duffield, GE; Dunlap, JC; Eckel-Mahan, K; Esser, KA; FitzGerald, GA; Forger, DB; Francey, LJ; Fu, Y-H; Gachon, F; Gatfield, D; de Goede, P; Golden, SS; Green, C; Harer, J; Harmer, S; Haspel, J; Hastings, MH; Herzel, H; Herzog, ED; Hoffmann, C; Hong, C; Hughey, JJ; Hurley, JM; de la Iglesia, HO; Johnson, C; Kay, SA; Koike, N; Kornacker, K; Kramer, A; Lamia, K; Leise, T; Lewis, SA; Li, J; Li, X; Liu, AC; Loros, JJ; Martino, TA; Menet, JS; Merrow, M; Millar, AJ; Mockler, T; Naef, F; Nagoshi, E; Nitabach, MN; Olmedo, M; Nusinow, DA; Ptáček, LJ; Rand, D; Reddy, AB; Robles, MS; Roenneberg, T; Rosbash, M; Ruben, MD; Rund, SSC; Sancar, A; Sassone-Corsi, P; Sehgal, A; Sherrill-Mix, S; Skene, DJ; Storch, K-F; Takahashi, JS; Ueda, HR; Wang, H; Weitz, C; Westermark, PO; Wijnen, H; Xu, Y; Wu, G; Yoo, S-H; Young, M; Zhang, EE; Zielinski, T; Hogenesch, JB, Guidelines for Genome-Scale Analysis of Biological Rhythms.,
Journal of Biological Rhythms, vol. 32 no. 5
(October, 2017),
pp. 380-393 [doi] [abs]
- Recent Grant Support
- Geometric and Topological Methods for Multi-Modal Data Analysis and Fusion, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, FA9550-18-1-0266, 2018/06-2021/06.
- Geometric and Topological Methods for Multi-Modal Data Analysis and Fusion, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, FA9550-18-1-0266, 2018/06-2021/06.
- An Adaptive Pipeline from Scientific Data to Models, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, 2017/09-2020/03.
- BIGDATA: F: DKA: CSD: Topological Data Analysis and Machine-Learning with Community-Accepted Features, National Science Foundation, IIS-1447491, 2014/09-2019/08.
- BIGDATA: F: DKA: CSD: Topological Data Analysis and Machine-Learning with Community-Accepted Features, National Science Foundation, IIS-1447491, 2014/09-2019/08.
- Quantifying Complex Spatiotemporal Systems, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2016/08-2018/07.
- EMSW21-RTG: Geometric, Topological, National Science Foundation, DMS-1045153, 2011/08-2018/07.
- ATD: Online Multiscale Algorithms for Geometric Density Estimation in High-Dimensions and Persistent Homology of Data fo, National Science Foundation, DMS-1222567, 2012/09-2017/08.
- Foundation of Information Systems, Johns Hopkins University, 108852, 2012/04-2017/03.
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