Department of Statistics

Martin Slawski
email:
Volgenau School of Engineering [email protected]
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, MS 4A7 webpage:
Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 https://sites.google.com/site/slawskimartin/

Education
02/2015 Dr. rer. nat. (∼PhD), Saarland University, Graduate School of Computer Science.
Thesis title: ’Topics in learning sparse and low-rank models of non-negative data’
Advisor: Matthias Hein
Committee: Thomas Lengauer & Jared Tanner (reviewers), Joachim Weickert (chair).
11/2008 Diploma (∼MSc) in Statistics, LMU München.
Thesis title: ’Regularization and sparsity in discrete structures’
Advisor: Gerhard Tutz, Minors: Medical Biometry, Bioinformatics

Positions
08/2016- Assistant Professor,
Department of Statistics, George Mason University.
09/2019- Visiting Scholar,
Department of Statistics, Columbia University.
06/2018- Visiting Professor,
08/2018 Baidu Research USA.
08/2014- Postdoctoral Associate,
08/2016 Department of Statistics & Biostatistics, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers
University. PI: Ping Li.
02/2009- Research and Teaching Assistant/PhD student,
07/2014 Machine Learning Group, Department of Computer Science, Saarland University.
funded by DFG Cluster of Excellence ’Multimodal Computing & Interaction (MMCI)’

Research Grants
NSF CRII: CIF: New Directions in Learning from Data with Faulty Correspondence ($175k/ from
09-01-2019 to 08-31-2021, role: single PI).

National Institute of Justice 2019-DU-BX-0011: Accounting for Covariates in Forensic Error Rate
Assessment and Evidence Interpretation ($495,056) from 01-01-2020 to 12-31-2021, role: co-PI; PI:
Liansheng Tang (U of Central Florida), other Co-PIs: Christopher Saunders (South Dakota State),
Danica Ommen (Iowa State), Emanuela Marasco (George Mason), Elham Tabassi (NIST).

Publications
Preprints
M. Slawski, G. Diao, and E. Ben-David. A Pseudo-Likelihood Approach to Linear Regression
with Partially Shuffled Data. arXiv:1910.01623, October 2019.
X. Zhu, M. Slawski, L. Tang, and J. Phillips. Order Constrained ROC Regression with
Application to Facial Recognition. submitted, October 2019.
H. Zhang, M. Slawski, and P. Li. Permutation Recovery from Multiple Measurement Vectors
in Unlabeled Sensing. arXiv:1909.02496; abridged version appeared in the Proceedings of
the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), September 2019.
F. Detmer, J. Cebral, and M. Slawski∗ corresponding author. A Note on Coding and Standard-
ization of Categorical Variables in (Sparse) Group Lasso Regression. arxiv:1805.06915; to
appear in Journal of Statistical Planning & Inference, August 2019.
M. Slawski, E. Ben-David, and P. Li. A Two-Stage Approach to Multivariate Linear Regression
with Sparsely Mismatched Data. arXiv:1907.07148; submitted for journal publication, July
2019.
M. Slawski, M. Rahmani, and P. Li. A Robust Subspace Recovery Approach to Linear
Regression with Partially Shuffled Labels. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), July
2019.
Q. Li, A. Alipour-Fanid, M. Slawski, L. Wu, K. Zeng, and L. Zhao. Large-scale Cost-aware
Classification Using Feature Computational Dependencies. to appear in IEEE Transactions
on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2019.
Journals
M. Slawski and E. Ben-David. Linear Regression with Sparsely Permuted Data. Electronic
Journal of Statistics, 13:1–36, 2019.
P. Li∗ , S. Rangapuram∗ , and M. Slawski∗ . Methods for sparse and low-rank recovery under
simplex constraints. to appear in Statistica Sinica ∗ authors in lexicographical order, 2018.
M. Slawski. On Principal Components Regression, Random Projections, and Column
Subsampling. Electronic Journal of Statistics, 12:3673–3712, 2018.
M. Slawski and P. Li. On the Trade-Off Between Bit Depth and Number of Samples for a
Basic Approach to Structured Signal Recovery From b-Bit Quantized Linear Measurements.
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 64:4159–4178, 2018.
P. Lutsik, M. Slawski, G. Gasparoni, N. Vedeneev, M. Hein, and J. Walter. MeDeCom:
discovery and quantification of latent components of heterogeneous methylomes. Genome
Biology, 1:55, 2017.
M. Slawski and M. Hein. Estimation of positive definite M -matrices and structure learning
for attractive Gaussian Markov random fields. Linear Algebra and its Applications (Special
Issue on Statistics), 473:145–179, 2015.
M. Slawski and M. Hein. Non-negative least squares for high-dimensional linear models:
consistency and sparse recovery without regularization. The Electronic Journal of Statistics,
7:3004–3056, 2013.
M. Slawski, R. Hussong, A. Tholey, T. Jakoby, B. Gregorius, A. Hildebrandt, and M. Hein.
Peak pattern deconvolution for protein mass spectrometry by non-negative least squares/least
absolute deviation template matching. BMC Bioinformatics, 13:291, November 2012.
M. Slawski. The structured elastic net for quantile regression and support vector classification.
Statistics and Computing, 22:153–168, January 2012.
M. Slawski, W. zu Castell, and G. Tutz. Feature Selection guided by structural information.
The Annals of Applied Statistics, 4:1056–1080, 2011.
A.-L. Boulesteix and M. Slawski. Stability and Aggregation of ranked gene lists. Briefings
in Bioinformatics, 10:556–568, 2009.
M. Slawski and M. Daumer an A.-L. Boulesteix. CMA - a comprehensive Bioconductor
package for supervised classification with high-dimensional data. BMC Bioinformatics, 9:439,
2008.

Proceedings
L. Zhao, A. Alipour-Fanid, M. Slawski, and K. Zeng. Prediction-time efficient classification
using feature computational dependencies. In Proceedings of the International Conference
on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, KDD ’18, pages 2787–2796, 2018.
P. Li∗ and M. Slawski∗ . Simple strategies for recovering inner products from coarsely
quantized random projections. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
(NIPS), pages 4567–4576. 2017. ∗ authors in lexicographical order.
M. Slawski. Compressed least squares regression revisited. In Artificial Intelligence and
Statistics, pages 1207–1215, 2017.
P. Li∗ , M. Mitzenmacher∗ , and M. Slawski∗ . Quantized Random Projections and Non-Linear
Estimation of Cosine Similarity. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 29,
pages 2748–2756. 2016. ∗ authors in lexicographical order.
M. Slawski and P. Li. b-bit Marginal Regression. In Advances in Neural Information
Processing Systems 28, pages 2053–2061. 2015.
M. Slawski, P. Li, and M. Hein. Regularization-free estimation in trace regression with
positive semidefinite matrices. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 28,
pages 2764–2772. 2015.
M. Slawski, M. Hein, and P. Lutsik. Matrix Factorization with Binary Components. In
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 26, pages 3210–3218. 2013.
M. Slawski and M. Hein. Sparse recovery by thresholded non-negative least squares. In
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24, pages 1926–1934. December 2011.
M. Slawski and M. Hein. Robust sparse recovery with non-negativity constraints. In 4th
Workshop on Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS),
June 2011.
Book Chapter
M. Slawski and M. Hein. Practical Applications of Sparse Modeling, edited by I. Rish,
G. Cecchi, A. Lozano and A. Niculescu-Mizil, chapter ’Sparse Recovery for Protein Mass
Spectrometry Data’. MIT press, 2014.
Journals (Medical)
F. Detmer, S. Hadad, B. Chung, F. Mut, M. Slawski, N. Juchler, V. Kurtcuoglu, S. Hirsch,
P. Biljenga, Y. Uchiyama, S. Fujimura, M. Yamamoto, Y. Murayama, H. Takao, T. Koivisto,
J. Frösen, and J. Cebral. Extension of statistical learning for aneurysm rupture assess-
ment to Finnish and Japanese populations using morphology, hemodynamics, and patient
characteristics. Neurosurgical Focus, 2019. to appear.
F. Detmer, D. Lückehe, F. Mut, M. Slawski, S. Hirsch, P. Bijlenga, G. von Voigt, and
J. Cebral. Comparison of statistical learning approaches for cerebral aneurysm rupture
assessment. to appear in International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery,
pages 1–10, 2019.
F. Detmer and B.-J. Chung and F. Mut and M. Slawski and F. Hamzei-Sichani and
C. Putman and C. Jimenez and J. Cebral. Development and internal validation of an
aneurysm rupture probability model based on patient characteristics and aneurysm location,
morphology, and hemodynamics. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and
Surgery, 13:1767–1779, 2018.
F. Detmer and B.-J. Chung and F. Mut and M. Pritz and M. Slawski and F. Hamzei-Sichani
and D. Kallmes and C. Putman and C. Jimenez and J. Cebral. Development of a statistical
model for discrimination of rupture status in posterior communicating artery aneurysms.
Acta Neurochirurgica, 2018. Available Online.
Working papers
M. Slawski. Random polyhedral cones with many faces and compressed sensing of non-
negative signals: a restricted eigenvalue approach. October 2013.
M. Slawski. Problem-specific analysis of non-negative least squares solvers with a focus on
instances with sparse solutions. March 2013.
M. Slawski, Q. Zheng, and M. Hein. Sparse matrix factorization over the probability simplex:
geometry, sparsification, and adaptation to the latent dimension. October 2012.
Bioconductor R packages
M. Slawski, R. Hussong, and M. Hein. IPPD: Isotopic peak pattern deconvolution for
Protein Mass Spectrometry by template matching, 2011.
M. Slawski and A.-L. Boulesteix. GeneSelector: Stability & Aggregation of ranked gene
lists, 2009.
M. Slawski, A.-L. Boulesteix, and C. Bernau. CMA: Synthesis of microarray-based classifi-
cation, 2008.

Presentations
○␣ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 08/22/2019, Invited half-day workshop
presentation
○␣ Joint Statistical Meeting, Denver, CO, 08/01/2019, Contributed talk
○␣ US Census Bureau, Suitland, MD, 03/09/2018, Invited talk
○␣ International Conference on Econometrics & Statistics, Hongkong, 06/20/2018,
Invited talk
○␣ Winter Workshop “Semi-Parametric & Non-Parametric Statistics in the Era of

Big Data”, Gainesville, FL, 01/19/2018, Poster

○␣ Virginia Tech Northern Virginia Center, Falls Church, VA, 10/06/2017, Invited

talk
○␣ Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, 09/15/2017, Invited talk

○␣ Joint Statistical Meeting, Baltimore, MD, 08/01/2017, Contributed talk

○␣ IMS New Researchers’ Conference, Baltimore, MD, 07/28/2017, Poster

○␣ US Census Bureau, Suitland, MD, 05/31/2017, Invited Talk

○␣ Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Statistics (AISTATS), Fort Lauderdale, FL,

04/20/2018, Poster
○␣ NIPS, Barcelona, Spain, 12/05/2016, Poster
○␣ University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 02/22/2016, Invited talk
○␣ George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 02/19/2016, Invited talk
○␣ University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, 02/16/2016, Invited talk
○␣ State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, 02/02/2016, Invited talk
○␣ NIPS 2015, Montreal, Canada, 12/2015, one Spotlight & one Poster
○␣ NIPS 2013, Lake Tahoe, US, 12/2013, Spotlight
○␣ NIPS 2011, Granada, Spain, 12/2011, Poster
○␣ NIPS 2011 Workshop on Sparse and Low Rank Representations, Sierra Nevada,
Spain, 12/2011, Poster
○␣ SPARS 11, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 07/27/2011, Contributed talk
○␣ NIPS 2010 Workshop on Practical Applications of Sparse Modeling, 2010, Whistler,
Canada, Talk
○␣ Acceleromics meets Genomics, Bernried, Germany, 11/2010, Workshop organizer

○␣ European Meeting of Statisticians, Toulouse, France, 07/23/2009, Contributed

talk
○␣ Conf. of the German Classification Society, Hamburg, 07/2008, Germany, Con-
tributed talk
○␣ Biometrisches Kolloquium, Munich, Germany, 03/2008, Poster

Teaching and Mentoring

Classes taught as instructor at George Mason University
Term Course Instructor/Course Grade

Spring ’19 STAT 672 Statistical Learning & 4.64/4.71

Data Analytics

Fall ’18 STAT 346 Probability for Engineers 4.40/4.10

STAT 689 Optimization for Statistical 4.83/4.83
Model Fitting

Spring ’18 STAT 346 Probability for Engineers 3.76/3.53

STAT 672 Statistical Learning & 4.67/4.73
Data Analytics

Fall ’17 STAT 346 Probability for Engineers 4.36/4.16

Spring ’17 STAT 672 Statistical Learning & 3.64/3.77

Data Analytics

Fall ’16 STAT 346 Probability for Engineers 3.17/2.97

PhD Advisor
○␣ Glenn Hui, PhD student in Statistics, August 2016 -
○␣ Xiaochen Zhu, PhD student in Statistics, February 2018 - co-advised w/ Larry Tang

○␣ Zhenbang Wang, PhD student in Statistics, February 2019 -

 PhD Committee Membership
○␣ Felicitas Detmer, PhD student in Bioengineering, May 2017 - September 2019
○␣ Qingzhe Li, PhD student in Information Technology, October 2018 -
MSc Thesis Advisor
○␣ Daniel Hartig, Master thesis in Statistics, July 2017 - December 2018
Teaching & Mentoring at Saarland University.
○␣ Head Teaching Assistant, ’Mathematics for Computer Scientists 3’ (multi-variable
calculus, basics of probability theory and statistics) , Winter 2011/2012
○␣ Teaching Assistant, ’Machine Learning’, Winter 2010/2011

○␣ Teaching Assistant, ’Machine Learning’, Winter 2009/2010

○␣ Qinqing Zheng, Master thesis in Computer Science, October 2010 - March 2012.
Next Position: PhD Student, University of Chicago (2012 – 2017).
Now at Facebook.
○␣ Janis Kalofolias, Research Immersion Lab Student, April 2013 - July 2014

Service
Departmental Service
○␣ Co-chair, Statistics Student Seminar, Fall 2018 – Spring 2019
○␣ Co-chair, Statistics Department Seminar, Fall 2016 – Spring 2018

Service in Peer Review

Journals: Am. Mathematical Monthly, Annals of Statistics, Bioinformatics (2),
BMC Bioinformatics, Biometrics, Computational Optimization & Applications,
Econometrics & Statistics, J. American Statistical Association,
J. of Korean Statistical Society (2), J. of Machine Learning Research (2),
J. of Statistical Planning & Inference, Nature, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory (2),
IEEE Trans. Sign. Proc., Information & Inference, Physica A, SIAM J. Imaging Sciences,
Statistics & Computing (7), Statistics, Statistics & Probability Letters.
Conferences: AISTATS (2012, 2016, 2017), ICML∗ (2014–2017), NIPS (2014–2017), AAAI 2018
∗
reviewer award (2015)