Raul Rodriguez-Esteban

Current Occupation: Living.

Other: Senior Scientist in Text Mining, Pfizer Biotherapeutics & Bioinnovation Center, Cambridge, MA

Education:
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Columbia University (Sep '02 - Dec '07).
M.A. Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University (Sep '04 - Aug '05).
M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland (Sep '00 - Aug '02).
B.S. Telecommunication Engineering, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Sep '96 - July '01).

Journal Articles:

• Rodriguez-Esteban R, Roberts PM, Crawford ME. Identifying and classifying biomedical perturbations in text. Nucleic Acids Res. 2008.
• Cokol M, Rodriguez-Esteban R. Visualizing evolution and impact of biomedical fields. J Biomed Inform. 2008 Dec;41(6):1050-2.
  • Included in a timeline of major tools in Borner, K. Atlas of Science: Guiding the Navigation and Management of Scholarly Knowledge. ESRI Press; 2009. (in press)
• Rodriguez-Esteban R, Rzhetsky A. Six senses: the bleak sensory landscape of biomedical texts. EMBO Rep. 2008 Mar;9(3):212-215.
• Editorial comment: EMBO Rep.
• Press Coverage: The New Scientist
• Cokol M, Ozbay F, Rodriguez-Esteban R. Retraction rates are on the rise. EMBO Rep. 2008 Jan;9(1):2.
• Cokol M, Rodriguez-Esteban R, Rzhetsky A. A recipe for high impact. Genome Biol. 2007 May 10;8(5):406
• Cokol M, Iossifov I, Rodriguez-Esteban R, Rzhetsky A. How many scientific papers should be retracted? EMBO Rep. 2007 May;8(5):422-3.
  • Press coverage: Nature, The Wall Street Journal
• Perez E, Rodriguez-Esteban R. Oreja: A MATLAB environment for the design of psychoacoustic stimuli Behavior Research Methods. 2006 Nov;38(4): 574-578 (full text)
• Rodriguez-Esteban R, Iossifov I, Rzhetsky A. Imitating manual curation of text-mined facts in biomedicine. PLoS Comput Biol. 2006 Sep 8;2(9)
• Cherniak C, Mokhtarzada Z, Rodriguez-Esteban R, Changizi K. Global optimization of cerebral cortex layout. PNAS. 2004 Jan 27; 101(4): 1081-1086.

Book Chapters:

• Cherniak C, Mokhtarzada Z, Rodriguez-Esteban R. "Neural Wiring Optimization". Evolution of Nervous Systems: A Comprehensive Reference. Eds. Kaas et al. Academic Press Inc., Nov. 2006.

Posters:

• Cokol, M, Rodriguez-Esteban, R. Visualizing evolution and impact of biomedical fields. 16th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Toronto, Canada (ISMB 2008).
• How many papers should be retracted in biomedicine? 15th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) & 6th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), Vienna, Austria (ISMB/ECCB 2007)
• Imitating manual curation of text-mined facts in biomedicine. 14th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Fortaleza, Brazil (ISMB 2006)
• Oreja... an environment for the design of psychoacoustic experiments. XIVth Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (2005)
• Perez, E., Meyer, G.,Rodriguez-Esteban, R. (2004). Do human listeners build models of environmental noise? Summerschool on 'Cognitive and physical models of speech production, perception and perception-production interaction' 19th-24th September, 2004. Lubmin (Germany)
• Simon JZ, Carr CE, Grau-Serrat V, Rodriguez-Esteban R. Biophysical Model Of Coincidence Detection In Nucleus Laminaris Neurons (SFN '01)

Theses:

• Rodriguez-Esteban, Raul. Methods in biomedical text mining. Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia University, 2008.
• Rodriguez-Esteban, Raul. A Model Of The Avian Superior Olivary Nucleus. M.S. Thesis, University of Maryland, College Park, 2002.
  This model was used in Grau-Serrat V, Carr CE, Simon JZ. Modeling coincidence detection in nucleus laminaris. Biol Cybern. 2003 Nov;89(5):388-96.

Invited Talks:

• Linguamatics Fall Users Conference 2008. (presentation)
• Highlights Track, 15th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) & 6th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) (ISMB/ECCB 2007). (presentation)
• PLoS Track Panel on Biomedical Text-Mining, 14th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Fortaleza, Brazil (ISMB 2006)
• Workshop on Theoretical Neuroscience: Optimization and Constraints in the Evolution of Brain Design, Cold Spring Harbor Lab (Banbury Workshop, Summer 2003)
• Workshop "Constraints in neural systems design" at the Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*03). (presentation)

Resources:

• Oreja v. 1.0 for the design of psychoacoustic experiments. In collaboration with Elvira Perez.
• SciTrends of Biomedical Sciences. Check the state of your biomedical field. In collaboration with Murat Cokol.

Technical Reports:

• Global Layout Optimization of Olfactory Cortex and of Amygdala of Rat. UM Computer Science Department, CS-TR-4861. Jun-2005.

Contact:

• E-mail: raul AT ee columbia edu

Other:

• Visit my colleagues Inaki Berenguer , Alberto Lopez & Murat Cokol , they are my friends and they want to improve their Google PageRank(TM)  : )

• Pictures in the snow
• With Norman Borlaug
• My father's excellent paella (and more paella)
• Be informed, read The Onion
  

I would live to study, and not study to live; yet I am prepared for 'date obolum Belisario'; and I that have borne a bag can bear a wallet.
Memorial of Access
FRANCIS BACON

Sé que los únicos paraísos no vedados al hombre son los paraísos perdidos.
Buenos Aires, La cifra
JORGE LUIS BORGES

It is true that logic only leads to disenchantment. We can't avoid going a long way with negativity, with nihilism and all. But then don't you think a more exciting world opens up? Not a more reassuring world, but certainly more thrilling, a world where the name of the game remains secret.
Forget Baudrillard
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.
Leviathan
THOMAS HOBBES

A sentence is in a sense dead until it is understood.
The Yellow Book
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

No has de esperar que Ítaca te enriquezca:
Ítaca te ha concedido ya un hermoso viaje.
Sin ella, jamás habrías partido;
mas no tiene otra cosa que ofrecerte.
Y si la encuentras pobre, Ítaca no te ha engañado
Ítaca
KONSTANTINOS KAVAFIS

We need to be tolerant of simplifications if they reveal and approximate the general outlines of our judgments. Objections by way of counterexamples are to be made with care, since these may tell us only what we know already, namely that our theory is wrong somewhere. The important thing is to find out how often and how far it is wrong. All theories are presumably mistaken in places. The real question at any given time is which of the views already proposed is the best approximation overall.
A theory of justice
JOHN RAWLS

Siempre esperando una idea

Max Ernst, Paris Dream

What is an engineer? by Robert Musil

Last Date of Modification: 10/17/2008