Affiliation
I am an Assistant Professor of Big Data in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at Simon Fraser University. I am also an Honorary Academic Visitor at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. My research includes machine learning, genetics, imaging neuroscience, Bayesian nonparametrics, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, deep learning, and procedural generation for games and art.
Conferences and events
- I co-organised the VanML: 2019 conference.
- I co-organised the CANSSI National Case Study Competition 2019.
Teaching
- STAT240. Introduction to Data Science. Spring 2020.
- STAT440. Learning from Big Data. Fall 2019, Fall 2018.
Software
- kgen. Software to efficiently compute inverses of genetic similarity matrices for partially observed multi-phenotype data.
- tess19 (by Shufei Ge). An implementation of the random tessellation forest.
- HDPStructure (by Maria De Iorio). A Bayesian nonparametric generalisation of the Structure2 model for genotype imputation and admixture inference.
Publications §
- L.T. Elliott. Kinship solutions for partially observed multiphenotype data. 2020. Journal of Computational Biology. In press. Code & Appendices
- S.M. Smith, L.T. Elliott, F. Alfaro-Almagro, P. McCarthy, T.E. Nichols, G. Douaud, and K.L. Miller. Brain aging comprises many modes of structural and functional change with distinct genetic and biophysical associations. 2020. eLife. In press
- S. Ge, S. Wang, Y.W. Teh, L. Wang, and L.T. Elliott. Random tessellation forests. 2019. Proceedings of the 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. Code & Appendices
- N.J. Armstrong et al. Common genetic variation indicates separate etiologies for periventricular and deep white matter hyperintensities. 2019. bioRxiv preprint 10.1101/683367
- J. Mollink, S.M. Smith, L.T. Elliott, M. Kleinnijenhuis, M. Hiemstra, F. Alfaro-Almagro, J. Marchini, A.-M. van Cappellen van Walsum, S. Jbabdi, and K.L. Miller. The spatial correspondence and genetic influence of interhemispheric connectivity with white matter microstructure. 2019. Nature Neuroscience. 22(5). p809-19
- L.T. Elliott, M. De Iorio, S. Favaro, K. Adhikari, and Y.W. Teh. Modeling population structure under hierarchical Dirichlet processes. 2019. Bayesian Analysis. 14(2). p313-39. Code
- L.T. Elliott, K. Sharp, F. Alfaro-Almagro, S. Shi, K.L. Miller, G. Douaud, J. Marchini, and S.M. Smith. Genome-wide association studies of brain imaging phenotypes in UK Biobank. 2018. Nature. 562(7726). p210-6. Data
- C. Bycroft, C. Freeman, D. Petkova, G. Band, L.T. Elliott, K. Sharp, A. Motyer, D. Vukcevic, O. Delaneau, J. O’Connell, A. Cortes, S. Welsh, A. Young, M. Effingham, G. McVean, S. Leslie, N. Allen, P. Donnelly, and J. Marchini. The UK Biobank resource with deep phenotyping and genomic data. 2018. Nature. 562(7726). p203-9
- S. Schwab, R. Harbord, V. Zerbi, L.T. Elliott, S. Afyouni, J.Q. Smith, M.W. Woolrich, S.M. Smith, and T.E. Nichols. Directed functional connectivity using dynamic graphical models. 2018. NeuroImage. 175. p340-53
- L.T. Elliott, and Y.W. Teh. A nonparametric HMM for genetic imputation and coalescent inference. 2016. Electronic Journal of Statistics. 10(2). p3425-51. Code
- L.T. Elliott. Bayesian nonparametric models of genetic variation. 2016. PhD Thesis, Gatsby Unit, University College London
- L.T. Elliott, and Y.W. Teh. Scalable imputation of genetic data with a discrete fragmentation-coagulation process. 2012. Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
- R.M. Cichy, P. Sterzer, J. Heinzle, L.T. Elliott, F. Ramirez, and J.D. Haynes. Probing principles of large-scale object representation: Category preference and location encoding. 2012. Human Brain Mapping. 34(7). p1636-51
- I. Murray, and L.T. Elliott. Driving Markov chain Monte Carlo with a dependent random stream. 2012. ArXiv preprint 1204.3187. Code
- Y.W. Teh, C. Blundell, and L.T. Elliott. Modelling genetic variations using fragmentation-coagulation Processes. 2011. Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
- Y. Chen, P. Namburi, L.T. Elliott, J. Heinzle, C. Soon, M. Chee, and J.D. Haynes. Cortical surface-based searchlight decoding. 2010. NeuroImage. 56(2). p582-92
Current students
Shufei Ge, Winfield Chen, Joosung Min, Zubia Mansoor, Hannah Sutton, Wendy Wang
Former students
Shijia Wang (now an Assistant Professor at Nankai University), Alice Roberts (now a Data Analyst at IUGO Mobile Entertainment)
Apps, Games, and Art
- vimesthesia. A vim plugin to improve the productivity of people with grapheme/colour synesthesia, by colouring each character according to their experience.
- Rogue, Fighter, Mage. A roguelike where you control a party of three characters in their quest to defeat the Goblin King. Top 10 in a 7DRL challenge.
- Mondrian Shapes. An interactive procedural visual art piece exploring tessellations.
- Jennifer Lyn Morone™ Inc (by Jennifer Lyn Morone). The artist who turned herself into a corporation.
Contact info
t: Vancouver: +1（604）442 ᐧ 4783
t: New York: +1（347）796 ᐧ 4389
e: lloyd ᐧ elliott ᘒ sfu ᐧ ca ( pgp public key )
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