Daniel Ruskin
ruskin[at]umd.edu
I am a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland College of Information, advised by Prof. Zubin Jelveh. My research interests include data science, record linkage, and digital history.
I have a B.S. in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis, with a second major in Systems Science & Engineering and a minor in History. At WashU, I conducted research on applications of machine learning and network analysis to biology with Prof. Michael Brent.
News
| Oct 24, 2026 | I gave a paper presentation at the 2026 Universities Studying Slavery Conference about the various approaches people have used to identify and trace ancestries of enslaved and formerly enslaved persons across digital records. It was great to speak with and learn from descendants and other scholars about the possibilities of computing for linking these records, as well as the potential harms. |
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| Oct 07, 2026 | New paper in Bioinformatics on mapping transcription factor networks using machine learning! This was from my time in the Brent Lab at WashU. Read here: METANet: a supervised ensemble learning framework for reconstructing direct and functional tissue-specific transcription factor networks. |
| Aug 26, 2025 | Started my PhD in Information Studies at the University of Maryland! |
| Apr 09, 2025 | I received the Research Excellence Award from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the WashU McKelvey Engineers’ Honors Ceremony! At the event, I also received the Senior Academic Excellence Award and Antoinette Frances Dames Award from the McKelvey School of Engineering. |
| Nov 16, 2024 | I gave a talk on my ongoing research at the 2024 Midstates Consortium Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science! |