Note: Contributors to this Issue

Contributors to the emerging investigators issue 2018.

Randolph S. Ashton is an Assistant Professor at UW–Madison’s Biomedical Engineering Department and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. He earned his BS and PhD in chemical engineering from Hampton University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, respectively, and performed postdoctoral studies at UC Berkeley. His lab melds advanced biomaterial design and neural stem cell biology to develop novel...

Editor’s Introduction to This Issue

With the recent development of high-throughput DNA microarray and next-generation sequencing techniques for detecting various genomic variants, genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have become a popular strategy to discover genetic factors affecting common complex diseases. Many GWASs have successfully identified genetic risk factors associated with common diseases and have achieved substant...

Editor's Introduction to This Issue

Next generation sequencing (NGS) has been facilitating the discovery and functional validation of causal variants in diverse rare diseases. However, for most of the 7,000 rare diseases, pathogenic mechanisms are still unknown. In this issue, Dr. Murim Choi's group (Seoul National University, Korea) comprehensively reviewed ultra-rare diseases and genomics-driven precision medicine. They present...

Preface to this special issue

This issue of JMLR is devoted to the memory of Alexey Chervonenkis. Over the period of a dozen years between 1962 and 1973 he and Vladimir Vapnik created a new discipline of statistical learning theory—the foundation on which all our modern understanding of pattern recognition is based. Alexey was 28 years old when they made their most famous and original discovery, the uniform law of large num...

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