Mikael Bodén is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience and also a Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, at the University of Queensland. He is affiliated with the Australian Research Council's Centre for Complex Systems, the Australian Research Council's Centre in Bioinformatics and a member of the board for Centre of Research in Language Processing and Linguistics (at the University of Queensland).
Mikael Bodén is a computer scientist with a firm research focus on machine learning and computational modelling in bioinformatics. In recent years, he has successfully approached a range of biological sequence prediction problems, including protein subcellular localisation and aspects of protein structure. His approach to building models from data embraces the incorporation of biologically authentic constraints (originating from experimental work) and aims to enable the extraction of domain-specific knowledge.
Mikael Bodén is leading a machine learning/bioinformatics research group (http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~pprowler/).
As a result of various research projects, the group has developed a range of predictor services, available publicly over the internet (http://pprowler.itee.uq.edu.au). As an example, we developed a protein sub-cellular localisation predictor, called the Protein Prowler, based on various machine learning techniques (including recurrent neural networks and support vector machines).
Publications
PhD Students
- John Hawkins (associate supervisor Janet Wiles)
- Keith Knapp (Deakin University)
- Naveen Kumar (primary supervisor Marcus Gallagher)
- Alexandra Wee (associate supervisor Michael Norris)
- Isye Arieshanti (MPhil)
Masters, Honours, 4th year students
- Lachlan Dufton
- Ben Leahy
- Fabian Buske (visiting from Freie Universitat Berlin)