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  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Cynthia Rudin is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research predominantly spans the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and Probability, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Biomedical Engineering, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Machine Learning in Healthcare
  • Statistical Methods and Inference
  • Machine Learning and Data Classification
  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference

The scientist has contributed to several recent publications, notable among them are:

  • "Interpretable machine learning: Fundamental principles and 10 grand challenges," 2022, published in Statistics Surveys
  • "Concept whitening for interpretable image recognition," 2020, published in Nature Machine Intelligence
  • "Understanding How Dimension Reduction Tools Work: An Empirical Approach to Deciphering t-SNE, UMAP, TriMAP, and PaCMAP for Data Visualization," 2020, published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "A case-based interpretable deep learning model for classification of mass lesions in digital mammography," 2021, published in Nature Machine Intelligence
  • "Towards a comprehensive evaluation of dimension reduction methods for transcriptomic data visualization," 2022, published in Communications Biology

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Alexander Volfovsky
  • Lesia Semenova
  • Zhicheng Guo
  • Margo Seltzer
  • Marco Morucci

Cynthia Rudin's work appears regularly in several publication venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Harvard Data Science Review
  • PubMed
  • Nature Machine Intelligence

In 2019, they were recognized as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA).

Best Publications

  • Stop explaining black box machine learning models for high stakes decisions and use interpretable models instead

    Cynthia Rudin

  • All Models are Wrong, but Many are Useful: Learning a Variable's Importance by Studying an Entire Class of Prediction Models Simultaneously

    Aaron Fisher;Cynthia Rudin;Francesca Dominici

  • Interpretable classifiers using rules and Bayesian analysis: Building a better stroke prediction model

    Benjamin Letham;Cynthia Rudin;Tyler H. McCormick;David Madigan

  • Interpretable Machine Learning: Fundamental Principles and 10 Grand Challenges

    Cynthia Rudin;Chaofan Chen;Zhi Chen;Haiyang Huang

  • The Big Data Newsvendor: Practical Insights from Machine Learning

    Gah-Yi Ban;Cynthia Rudin

  • This Looks Like That: Deep Learning for Interpretable Image Recognition

    Chaofan Chen;Oscar Li;Chaofan Tao;Alina Jade Barnett

  • Deep Learning for Case-Based Reasoning Through Prototypes: A Neural Network That Explains Its Predictions

    Oscar Li;Hao Liu;Chaofan Chen;Cynthia Rudin

  • PULSE: Self-Supervised Photo Upsampling via Latent Space Exploration of Generative Models

    Sachit Menon;Alexandru Damian;Shijia Hu;Nikhil Ravi

  • Supersparse linear integer models for optimized medical scoring systems

    Berk Ustun;Cynthia Rudin

  • Why Are We Using Black Box Models in AI When We Don’t Need To? A Lesson From An Explainable AI Competition

    Cynthia Rudin;Joanna Radin

  • Interpretable classification models for recidivism prediction

    Jiaming Zeng;Berk Ustun;Cynthia Rudin

  • Machine Learning for the New York City Power Grid

    C. Rudin;D. Waltz;R. N. Anderson;A. Boulanger

  • The Bayesian Case Model: A Generative Approach for Case-Based Reasoning and Prototype Classification

    Been Kim;Cynthia Rudin;Julie A Shah

  • This Looks Like That: Deep Learning for Interpretable Image Recognition

    Chaofan Chen;Oscar Li;Daniel Tao;Alina Barnett

  • Learning Certifiably Optimal Rule Lists for Categorical Data

    Elaine Angelino;Nicholas Larus-Stone;Daniel Alabi;Margo I. Seltzer

  • Concept whitening for interpretable image recognition

    Zhi Chen;Yijie Bei;Cynthia Rudin

  • Falling Rule Lists

    Fulton Wang;Cynthia Rudin

  • Understanding How Dimension Reduction Tools Work: An Empirical Approach to Deciphering t-SNE, UMAP, TriMap, and PaCMAP for Data Visualization

    Yingfan Wang;Haiyang Huang;Cynthia Rudin;Yaron Shaposhnik

  • A Bayesian framework for learning rule sets for interpretable classification

    Tong Wang;Cynthia Rudin;Finale Doshi-Velez;Yimin Liu

  • The P-Norm Push: A Simple Convex Ranking Algorithm that Concentrates at the Top of the List

    Cynthia Rudin

  • Scalable Bayesian rule lists

    Hongyu Yang;Cynthia Rudin;Margo Seltzer

  • The Big Data Newsvendor: Practical Insights from Machine Learning Analysis

    Cynthia Rudin;Gah-Yi Vahn

Frequent Co-Authors

David Madigan
David Madigan Northeastern University
Rebecca J. Passonneau
Rebecca J. Passonneau Pennsylvania State University
Robert E. Schapire
Robert E. Schapire Microsoft (United States)
Margo Seltzer
Margo Seltzer University of British Columbia
Roger N. Anderson
Roger N. Anderson Columbia University
Ingrid Daubechies
Ingrid Daubechies Duke University
Been Kim
Been Kim Google (United States)
Haym Hirsh
Haym Hirsh Cornell University
Gail E. Kaiser
Gail E. Kaiser Columbia University
Rhoda Au
Rhoda Au Boston University

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