Dr. Alain Hauser

Duties

• Assistant at the Seminar für Statistik, ETH Zurich, from January 2010 to June 2013
• PhD student of Prof. Peter Bühlmman, from January 2010 to June 2013

Research interests

• Causal inference
  
• Theory of graphical models
• Graph algorithms
• Biostatistical applications of graphical models
  

Publications (till June 2013)

Journal publications

• Characterization and greedy learning of interventional Markov equivalence classes of directed acyclic graphs [bib] [abstract] [pdf] JMLR
  Alain Hauser, Peter Bühlmann
  Journal of Machine Learning Research, 13:2409-2464, 2012
• Repeat or not repeat?—Statistical validation of tandem repeat prediction in genomic sequences [bib] @ Oxford University Press
  Elke Schaper, Andrey V. Kajava, Alain Hauser, Maria Anisimova
  Nucleic Acids Research, doi:10.1093/nar/gks726, 2012

Conference publications

• Two optimal strategies for active learning of causal models from interventions
  [bib] [pdf] arxiv
  Alain Hauser, Peter Bühlmann
  Proceedings of the 6th European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM-2012), pp. 123--130, 2012.
• Experimental evaluation of approximation and heuristic algorithms for sorting railway cars [bib] [pdf] © Springer (2010)
  Alain Hauser, Jens Maue
  Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA-10), LNCS 6049, 154--165, Springer, 2010.

Talks and Posters

• Learning causal models from interventions: inference and active learning [contributed talk]
  Alain Hauser
  Statistics for Complex Networks: Theory and Applications, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, February 01, 2013
• Causal inference from interventional data [contributed talk]
  Alain Hauser
  8th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Istanbul, Turkey, July 09, 2012
• Causal inference from interventional data [invited talk]
  Alain Hauser
  Institut für Medizinische Statistik, Medizinische Universität Wien, Austria, January 17, 2012
• Characterization and greedy learning of interventional Markov equivalence classes of directed acyclic graphs [Poster]
  Alain Hauser, Peter Bühlmann
  27th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI2011), Barcelona, Spain, July 14 - 17, 2011
• Modeling and learning causal relationship in biological systems [invited talk]
  Alain Hauser
  Seminar in Biomathematics, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zürich, May 24, 2011

PhD Thesis

• Causal inference from interventional data [DOI: 10.3929/ethz-a-009795024]
  Alain Hauser
  ETH Zürich, 2013.

Teaching

Supervised Theses

• Learning causal models from binary interventional data [abstract] [pdf]
  Alexandros Gekenidis
  Master thesis, March 2012

Lecture Assistance

• Statistik und Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung, spring semester 2013
  
• Biostatistics, automn semester 2012
  
• Computational Statistics, spring semester 2012
  
• Applied Time Series Analysis, spring semester 2011
• Statistik (für Biologie und pharmazeutische Wissenschaften), automn semester 2010
• Computational Statistics, spring semester 2010
• Analysis II (für Mathematik und Physik), spring semester 2009
• Analysis I (für Mathematik und Physik), automn semester 2008
• Analysis I (für Mathematik und Physik), automn semester 2007
• Analysis I (für Mathematik und Physik), winter semester 2006
• Analysis II (für Maschinenbau und Verfahrenstechnik), summer semester 2003