me

William M. Beaver

Greetings. I am a graduate student here in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. My advisor is Professor Yoav Freund.

Quick update on more recent work: (You can still checkout my old website at Columbia University.)

2008
William Beaver, Adam Pare, David Kosman, Ethan Bier, William McGinnis, Yoav Freund
Adaptive image segmentation methods applied to the analysis of Snail repressor dosage impact on nascent vnd, sog, rho and brk transcription.
49th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, San Diego, CA. April 2-6, 2008.
 
William Beaver, Adam Pare, David Kosman, Ethan Bier, William McGinnis, Yoav Freund.
Collections of classifiers tuned for cell finding with an application to building digital cell atlases of Drosophila embryos.
Bio-Image Informatics Workshop, University of California, Santa Barbara. January 17-18, 2008.
Poster (pdf 2.8MBAbstract (pdf 3.4MB)

2007
William Beaver, David Kosman, Gary Tedeschi, Ethan Bier, William McGinnis, Yoav Freund
Segmentation of Nuclei in Confocal Image Stacks using Performance Based Thresholding
Proceedings of 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Washington, DC. April 11-15.
Poster (pdf 1.4MB) Paper (IEEE Xplore)
William Beaver, David Kosman, Gary Tedeschi, Adam Pare, Ethan Bier, William McGinnis, Yoav Freund
Automated Image analysis of Multiple Gene activity patterns in developing animals.
Platform talk at the 48th annual Drosophila research conference, Philadelphia, April 2007.
Abstract (email me for slides)
Adam C Pare, Derek Lemons, David Kosman, William Beaver, Yoav Freund, William McGinnis
FISH based method for automated quantification of nascent and cytoplasmic mRNA transcript numbers in fixed Drosophila embryonic cells.
48th annual Drosophila research conference, Philadelphia, April 2007.
Gregory Giannone, Benjamin J. Dubin-Thaler, Olivier Rossier, Yunfei Cai, Oleg Chaga, Guoying Jiang, William Beaver, Hans-Gunther Dobereiner, Yoav Freund, Gary Borisy and Michael P. Sheetz
Lamellipodial Actin Mechanically Links Myosin Activity with Adhesion-Site Formation
Cell, Volume 128, Issue 3, 9 February 2007, Pages 561-575.
Cell article on ScienceDirect

2006
William Beaver and Yoav Freund
Analysis of Biomedical Images Using Adaptive Computer Vision
UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering Research Expo 2006
Poster (pdf 2.8MB)

2004
Gábor Blaskó, William Beaver, Maryam Kamvar, Steven Feiner
Workplane-Orientation Sensing Techniques for Tablet PCs,
Proc. 17th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2004), Conference Companion, Santa Fe, NM, USA, 24-27 October, 2004, pp. 1-2
Paper (pdf 308KB)

"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."
- James M. Barrie (Scottish dramatist & novelist (1860 - 1937))