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Lorin Crawford

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Principal Researcher in BioML at Microsoft Research.

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Kevin K. Yang 楊凱筌 @kevinkaichuang.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
EnhancAR: Use evolution and deep learning to design enhancers with desired expression profiles! Had a lot of fun working with Andrew Duncan, Micaela Consens @alexijie.bsky.social @lcrawford.bsky.social Jennifer Mitchell and Alan Moses! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Amstat-American Statistical Association @amstatnews.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Join the Dionne Price Public Lecture on April 21 at 3 p.m., featuring Lorin Crawford (Microsoft Research), who will present “A Statistician’s Roadmap Toward an AI-Driven Paradigm for Precision Oncology.” Free to attend in person or virtually (registration required): tinyurl.com/y3vaeaup #STATSSKY
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Lorin Crawford @lcrawford.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Excited to see our hierarchical cross-entropy strategy for improved cell type annotation out today in @natcomputsci.nature.com! Congratulations to the team! Try out the HCE loss with your own models and datasets: 📄: www.nature.com/articles/s43... 💻: github.com/microsoft/hc...
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Improving atlas-scale single-cell annotation models with hierarchical cross-entropy loss - Nature Computational Science
A hierarchical cross-entropy loss is presented, which incorporates ontology structure into training and improves the out-of-distribution performance of large-scale single-cell annotation models withou...
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Nature Computational Science @natcomputsci.nature.com · 30/01/2026
📢Out now! Sebastiano Cultrera di Montesano, Peter S. Winter, @lcrawford.bsky.social, and colleagues present a hierarchical cross-entropy loss that improves performance of single-cell annotation models. www.nature.com/articles/s43... 🖥️ 🧬
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Improving atlas-scale single-cell annotation models with hierarchical cross-entropy loss - Nature Computational Science
A hierarchical cross-entropy loss is presented, which incorporates ontology structure into training and improves the out-of-distribution performance of large-scale single-cell annotation models withou...
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Lorin Crawford @lcrawford.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Come do a research internship with us! Details on the posting and how to upload a research statement given below!
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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
"What James Watson got wrong about DNA" By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com). www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
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What James Watson got wrong about DNA - The Boston Globe
The science he helped pioneer consistently undermines his view that genes determine everything about us.
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Lorin Crawford @lcrawford.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Alan did a ton of work on our latest revision. Message of the story still holds: more data does not necessarily lead to better downstream performance for many models. Check out all our new analyses here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Lorin Crawford @lcrawford.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Come do an internship with us! Please apply
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arXiv q-bio.GN Genomics @qbiogn-bot.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Gindra, Palla, Nguyen, Wagner, Tran, Theis, Saur, Crawford, Peng: A Large-Scale Benchmark of Cross-Modal Learning for Histology and Gene Expression in Spatial Transcriptomics arxiv.org/abs/2508.01490 arxiv.org/pdf/2508.01490 arxiv.org/html/2508.01490
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The American Journal of Human Genetics @ajhgnews.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
📣Online now! 📄Sparse modeling of interactions enables fast detection of genome-wide epistasis in biobank-scale studies 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 @lcrawford.bsky.social @julian-stamp.bsky.social & co
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Sparse modeling of interactions enables fast detection of genome-wide epistasis in biobank-scale studies
The sparse marginal epistasis test overcomes computational limitations of previous mapping approaches by focusing its epistatic search to regions of the genome that have some known functional relation...
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Kevin K. Yang 楊凱筌 @kevinkaichuang.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Do protein language models store different structural elements in factorizable subnetworks? To find out, we masked out PLM weights to suppress performance on CATH subcategories or secondary structure elements while maintaining performance on other sequences or residues.
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Amstat-American Statistical Association @amstatnews.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Members have elected Brian Millen as the 122nd president of the association. Also elected: Julia Sharp, Vice President; Martin Slawski, Council of Sections Representative; Ruixiao Lu, Council of Chapters Representative; Pedro Silva, International Representative. Congratulations! tinyurl.com/ptunrn5z
The artwork includes a photo of each of the elected with the word Congratulations at the top.
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National Institute of Statistical Sciences @nissorg.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
"Leadership in Trustworthy AI" COPSS-NISS Leadership Webinar with David Donoho (Stanford), Michael I. Jordan (UC Berkeley), and Tracy Ke (Harvard) - online Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 12-1pm ET. Register at: www.niss.org/events/copss...
Pictures of the speakers for the "Leadership in Trustworthy AI" COPSS-NISS Leadership Webinar with David Donoho (Stanford), Michael I. Jordan (UC Berkeley), and Tracy Ke (Harvard) - online Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 12-1pm ET.
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Lorin Crawford @lcrawford.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Great to see our paper presenting recall, a framework which calibrates clustering for the impact of data "double-dipping" in single-cell studies, out today in AJHG! Congratulations, @alandenadel.bsky.social and co-authors!
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Nature Reviews Genetics @natrevgenet.nature.com · 10/03/2025
New online! Adapting systems biology to address the complexity of human disease in the single-cell era
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Adapting systems biology to address the complexity of human disease in the single-cell era
Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 10 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41576-025-00821-6Differences between humans and experimental models create a translational gap that makes it difficult to extrapolate research findings. The authors review…
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briantrippe.bsky.social @briantrippe.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
🔥 Benchmark Alert! MotifBench sets a new standard for evaluating protein design methods in motif scaffolding. Why does this matter? Reproducibility & fair comparison have been lacking—until now. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.12479 | Repo: github.com/blt2114/Moti... A thread ⬇️
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RECOMB Conference Series @recombconf.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🎉Congratulations to the authors!🎉 The list of accepted papers for #RECOMB2025 is now live ➡️ recomb.org/recomb2025/a... What are your plans for Seoul? Let us know! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uztj... #seoul
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RECOMB 2025 | PROGRAM
RECOMB 2025 - Yonsei University, Seoul
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Lorin Crawford @lcrawford.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Quick post to close out the week - in our newest preprint, @julian-stamp.bsky.social scales the marginal epistasis test to work on biobanks! The key is that using trait-specific information to induce sparsity in the modeled gene-interactions greatly improves both runtime and power
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AI x Bio Discovery @aixbiobot.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Evaluating the role of pre-training dataset size and diversity on single-cell foundation model performance [new]
Evaluating the role of pre-training dataset size and diversity on single-cell foundation model performanceFigure 1Figure 2Figure 3
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bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Rethinking cancer drug synergy prediction: a call for standardization in machine learning applications www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Lorin Crawford @lcrawford.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
In our newest preprint, we show that simply increasing the size of pre-training datasets doesn't necessarily improve the performance of single-cell foundation models on downstream tasks. Really proud of @alandenadel.bsky.social for leading this effort! See his thread below for more details👇
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Flora Rutaganira @frutag33.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This starter pack is in honor of Assistant Professor Antentor Hinton Jr (AJ) at Vanderbilt School of Medicine - Basic Sciences. AJ curated the first 100 Inspiring Black Scientists in America list and in collaboration with the Community of Scholars expanded this list to the 1000. go.bsky.app/DsJrwR
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Neil Tenenholtz @ntenenz.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Looking to find your MSR colleagues? I put together a starter pack. Msg me if I missed you (or you just joined). go.bsky.app/NxtpELZ
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Lorin Crawford @lcrawford.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
In the spirit of trying to be more active on here... the deadline for our BioML internship is tomorrow 11/22. If you are currently a PhD student please consider applying --- all we need is a CV and research statement! jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
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