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Professor Amaral conducts and directs research that provides insight into the emergence, evolution, and stability of complex social and biological systems. His research aims to address some of the most pressing challenges facing humanity, including the mitigation of errors in healthcare settings, the characterization of the conditions fostering innovation and creativity, or the growth limits imposed by sustainability.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Physics, PhD, Boston University
… → 1996
Physics, MS, University of Lisbon
Physics, BS, University of Lisbon
Research interests keywords
- Complex networks in nature
- study of innovation and creativity
- system-level modeling of biological processes
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Frameworks: Born Physical, Studied Digitally (BP/SD) - An open platform for making physical archives findable, accessible, interoperable, and (re)usable
Amaral, L. A. N. (PD/PI), Stoeger, T. (Co-PD/PI) & van der Lee, S. (Co-PD/PI)
7/1/24 → 6/30/29
Project: Research project
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Successful Clinical Response In Pneumonia Therapy (SCRIPT) Systems Biology Center
Wunderink, R. G. (PD/PI), Wunderink, R. G. (PD/PI), Abdala-Valencia, H. (Co-Investigator), Abdala-Valencia, H. (Co-Investigator), Budinger, G. S. (Co-Investigator), Budinger, G. S. (Co-Investigator), Etemadi, M. (Co-Investigator), Etemadi, M. (Co-Investigator), Hartmann, E. M. (Co-Investigator), Hartmann, E. M. (Co-Investigator), Hultquist, J. F. (Co-Investigator), Hultquist, J. F. (Co-Investigator), Lorenzo Redondo, R. (Co-Investigator), Lorenzo Redondo, R. (Co-Investigator), Luo, Y. (Co-Investigator), Luo, Y. (Co-Investigator), Misharin, A. (Co-Investigator), Misharin, A. (Co-Investigator), Morales-Nebreda, L. (Co-Investigator), Morales-Nebreda, L. (Co-Investigator), Ozer, E. A. (Co-Investigator), Ozer, E. A. (Co-Investigator), Pickens, C. I. (Co-Investigator), Pickens, C. I. (Co-Investigator), Qi, C. (Co-Investigator), Qi, C. (Co-Investigator), Scholtens, D. M. (Co-Investigator), Scholtens, D. M. (Co-Investigator), Singer, B. (Co-Investigator), Singer, B. (Co-Investigator), Stoeger, T. (Co-Investigator), Stoeger, T. (Co-Investigator), Swaminathan, S. (Co-Investigator), Swaminathan, S. (Co-Investigator), Walter, J. M. (Co-Investigator), Walter, J. M. (Co-Investigator), Wunderink, R. G. (Co-Investigator), Wunderink, R. G. (Co-Investigator), Amaral, L. A. N. (Other), Amaral, L. A. N. (Other), Budinger, G. S. (Other), Budinger, G. S. (Other), Hartmann, E. M. (Other), Hartmann, E. M. (Other), Hauser, A. R. (Other), Hauser, A. R. (Other), Misharin, A. (Other), Misharin, A. (Other), Ozer, E. A. (Other), Ozer, E. A. (Other), Pickens, C. I. (Other), Pickens, C. I. (Other), Qi, C. (Other), Qi, C. (Other), Singer, B. (Other), Singer, B. (Other), Starren, J. (Other), Stoeger, T. (Other), Walter, J. M. (Other), Walter, J. M. (Other), Wunderink, R. G. (Other) & Wunderink, R. G. (Other)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
1/1/23 → 12/31/27
Project: Research project
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HDR DSC: Collaborative Research: The Metropolitan Chicago Data Science Corps (MCDC): Learning from Data to Support Communities
van der Lee, S. (PD/PI), van der Lee, S. (PD/PI), van der Lee, S. (PD/PI), Birkett, M. A. (Co-PD/PI), Birkett, M. A. (Co-PD/PI), Birkett, M. A. (Co-PD/PI), Goldberg, B. B. (Co-PD/PI), Goldberg, B. B. (Co-PD/PI), Goldberg, B. B. (Co-PD/PI), Schanzenbach, D. W. (Co-PD/PI), Schanzenbach, D. W. (Co-PD/PI), Schanzenbach, D. W. (Co-PD/PI), Amaral, L. A. N. (Other), Amaral, L. A. N. (Other), Amaral, L. A. N. (Other), Amato, K. R. (Other), Amato, K. R. (Other), Amato, K. R. (Other), Blomberg Stathopoulos, A. I. (Other), Blomberg Stathopoulos, A. I. (Other), Blomberg Stathopoulos, A. I. (Other), Brown, C. H. (Other), Brown, C. H. (Other), Brown, C. H. (Other), Drane, D. L. (Other), Drane, D. L. (Other), Drane, D. L. (Other), Dunn, J. B. (Other), Dunn, J. B. (Other), Dunn, J. B. (Other), Gray, K. A. (Other), Gray, K. A. (Other), Gray, K. A. (Other), Hambleton, J. P. (Other), Hambleton, J. P. (Other), Hambleton, J. P. (Other), Hammond, K. J. (Other), Hammond, K. J. (Other), Hammond, K. J. (Other), Hedges, L. V. (Other), Hedges, L. V. (Other), Hedges, L. V. (Other), Horton, D. E. (Other), Horton, D. E. (Other), Horton, D. E. (Other), Kuyper, A. M. (Other), Kuyper, A. M. (Other), Kuyper, A. M. (Other), Linna Jr., D. W. (Other), Linna Jr., D. W. (Other), Linna Jr., D. W. (Other), Miller, W. M. (Other), Miller, W. M. (Other), Miller, W. M. (Other), Packman, A. (Other), Packman, A. (Other), Packman, A. (Other), Pah, A. R. (Other), Pah, A. R. (Other), Pah, A. R. (Other), Papachristos, A. V. (Other), Papachristos, A. V. (Other), Papachristos, A. V. (Other), Phillips II, G. (Other), Phillips II, G. (Other), Phillips II, G. (Other), Rogers, J. M. (Other), Rogers, J. M. (Other), Rogers, J. M. (Other), Van Wart, S. J. (Other), Van Wart, S. J. (Other), Van Wart, S. J. (Other), Voigt, R. (Other), Voigt, R. (Other), Voigt, R. (Other), Wells, G. (Other), Wells, G. (Other), Wells, G. (Other), Youn, H. (Other), Youn, H. (Other) & Youn, H. (Other)
9/1/21 → 8/31/25
Project: Research project
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Assessing SARS-CoV-2 Variant Evolution in Patients
Wunderink, R. G. (PD/PI), Achenbach, C. J. (Co-PD/PI), Hultquist, J. F. (Co-PD/PI), Ison, M. G. (Co-PD/PI), Lorenzo Redondo, R. (Co-PD/PI), Ozer, E. A. (Co-PD/PI), Qi, C. (Co-PD/PI), Scholtens, D. M. (Co-PD/PI), Amaral, L. A. N. (Other), Hauser, A. R. (Other) & Misharin, A. (Other)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
7/29/21 → 12/31/22
Project: Research project
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Integrative Multi-Scale Systems Analysis of Gene-Expression-Driven Aging Morbidity
Amaral, L. A. N. (PD/PI) & Stoeger, T. (PD/PI)
9/15/20 → 10/31/23
Project: Research project
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Adversarial training and attribution methods enable evaluation of robustness and interpretability of deep learning models for image classification
Santos, F. A. O., Zanchettin, C., Lei, W. & Nunes Amaral, L. A., Nov 2024, In: Physical Review E. 110, 5, 054310.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Artificial intelligence needs a scientific method-driven reset
Nunes Amaral, L. A., Apr 2024, In: Nature Physics. 20, 4, p. 523-524 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
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Energy metabolism modulates the regulatory impact of activators on gene expression
Qiao, S., Bernasek, S., Gallagher, K. D., Connell, J. O., Yamada, S., Bagheri, N., Amaral, L. A. N. & Carthew, R. W., Jan 2024, In: Development (Cambridge). 151, 1, dev201986.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Meta-Research: Understudied genes are lost in a leaky pipeline between genome-wide assays and reporting of results
Richardson, R., Tejedor Navarro, H., Amaral, L. A. N. & Stoeger, T., Mar 28 2024, In: eLife. 12Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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On the improvement of handwritten text line recognition with octave convolutional recurrent neural networks
Castro, D., Zanchettin, C. & Amaral, L. A. N., Dec 2024, In: International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition. 27, 4, p. 567-581 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Scopus citations
Datasets
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Stopwords-filtering: A universal information-theoretic approach to the identification of stopwords
Gerlach, M. (Creator) & Amaral, L. A. N. (Creator), Code Ocean, 2019
DOI: 10.24433/co.6204149.v1, https://codeocean.com/capsule/6532955/tree/v1
Dataset
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Appendix B. Confidence intervals for compartment properties.
Guimera, R. (Contributor), Stouffer, D. B. (Contributor), Sales-Pardo, M. (Contributor), Leicht, E. A. (Contributor), Newman, M. E. J. (Contributor) & Amaral, L. A. N. (Contributor), wiley, 2016
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3549897, https://wiley.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Appendix_B_Confidence_intervals_for_compartment_properties_/3549897
Dataset
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Appendix A. A table of definitions of model and ecological variables.
Stouffer, D. B. (Contributor), Camacho, J. (Contributor), Guimera, R. (Contributor), Ng, C. A. (Contributor) & Nunes, A. L. A. (Contributor), wiley, 2016
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3524630, https://wiley.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Appendix_A_A_table_of_definitions_of_model_and_ecological_variables_/3524630
Dataset
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Additional file 1 of The first step is recognizing there is a problem: a methodology for adjusting for variability in disease severity when estimating clinician performance
Bechel, M. (Creator), Pah, A. R. (Creator), Persell, S. D. (Creator), Weiss, C. H. (Creator) & Nunes Amaral, L. A. (Creator), figshare, 2022
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19373452, https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Additional_file_1_of_The_first_step_is_recognizing_there_is_a_problem_a_methodology_for_adjusting_for_variability_in_disease_severity_when_estimating_clinician_performance/19373452
Dataset
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Appendix F. Modularity as a function of diet contiguity for all food webs.
Guimera, R. (Contributor), Stouffer, D. B. (Contributor), Sales-Pardo, M. (Contributor), Leicht, E. A. (Contributor), Newman, M. E. J. (Contributor) & Amaral, L. A. N. (Contributor), wiley, 2016
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3549885, https://wiley.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Appendix_F_Modularity_as_a_function_of_diet_contiguity_for_all_food_webs_/3549885
Dataset