Lav R. Varshney

The paper compares the esophageal connectomes of parasitic and free-living nematodes to show how parasitism simplifies neural circuits and identifies potential targets for parasite control.

The paper investigates how network controllability in specific brain regions relates to general intelligence using MRI data from 275 adults, finding left-hemisphere controllers linked to intelligence.

This paper develops an algorithm for imputing missing values in non-negative matrix factorization, showing it performs as well as or better than existing methods.

One attention head of a protein BERT model tracks 3D contacts (28% vs 1.3% background); other heads target binding sites, and deeper layers attend to higher-level properties.

The paper introduces a novel image registration method for image-based transcriptomics using parametric signal features and multivariate information measures.