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Martin Zwick was awarded his Ph.D. in Biophysics at MIT in 1968, and joined the Biophysics Department faculty of the University of Chicago in 1969. Initially working in crystallography and macromolecular structure, his interests shifted to systems theory and methodology, the field now known as the study of chaos, complexity, and complex adaptive systems. Since 1976 he has been teaching and doing research in the Systems Science PhD Program at Portland State University; during the years 1984-1989 he was director of the program. | |||
His main research areas are information theoretic modeling, machine learning, theoretical biology, game theory, and systems theory and philosophy. Scientifically, his focus is on applying systems theory and methodology to the natural and social sciences, most recently to biomedical data analysis, the evolution of cooperation, and sustainability. Philosophically, his focus is on how systems ideas relate to classical and contemporary philosophy, how they offer a bridge between science and religion, and how they can help us understand and address societal problems. | |||
==Academia and Career== | ==Academia and Career== | ||
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Personal Life
Martin Zwick was awarded his Ph.D. in Biophysics at MIT in 1968, and joined the Biophysics Department faculty of the University of Chicago in 1969. Initially working in crystallography and macromolecular structure, his interests shifted to systems theory and methodology, the field now known as the study of chaos, complexity, and complex adaptive systems. Since 1976 he has been teaching and doing research in the Systems Science PhD Program at Portland State University; during the years 1984-1989 he was director of the program.
His main research areas are information theoretic modeling, machine learning, theoretical biology, game theory, and systems theory and philosophy. Scientifically, his focus is on applying systems theory and methodology to the natural and social sciences, most recently to biomedical data analysis, the evolution of cooperation, and sustainability. Philosophically, his focus is on how systems ideas relate to classical and contemporary philosophy, how they offer a bridge between science and religion, and how they can help us understand and address societal problems.
Academia and Career
Martin Zwick is a Professor of Systems Science at Portland State University. His first position after his PhD in Biophysics from MIT was in the Department of Biophysics and Theoretical Biology at the University of Chicago where he continued mathematical and computational research on macromolecular structure.
When his interests shifted to systems theory and methodology, he joined the faculty of the Systems Science Program and later served for a number of years as program head. Beyond his work in systems science as such, he has applied systems ideas and methods to a wide variety of topics in the natural and social sciences, computer science and engineering, biomedicine and health, and the humanities. For the breadth and depth of his scholarly work he was recognized with the university’s award for research excellence.
His recent interests have been in machine learning (especially probabilistic graphical modeling), theoretical biology and Artificial Life, and systems theory and philosophy. Scientifically, his focus is on applying systems theory and methodology to the sciences. Philosophically, his focus is on how systems ideas relate to classical and contemporary philosophy and how they help us understand and address societal problems.
Special Interests
Video Presentations
Selected Publications
- Zwick, M. (2015). “Exploratory Modeling of Traumatic Brain Injury.” Brain Trauma Evidence-based Consortium (B-TEC) meeting, Bethesda, June 9-10, 2015.
- Zwick, M. (2015). “Exploratory Modeling of TBI Data.” Brain Trauma Evidence-based Consortium (B-TEC) meeting, San Francisco, Jan 28-29, 2015.
- Zwick, M., Fusion, J., and Wilmot, B. (2012). “Reconstructability of Epistatic Functions.” Journal of Molecular Engineering and Systems Biology. Doi: 10.7243/2050-1412-1-4
- Kramer, P., Westaway, S., Zwick, M., and Shervais, S. (2012) "Reconstructability Analysis of Genetic Loci Associated with Alzheimer Disease." IEEE 6th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and13th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems, SCIS-ISIS2012, Kobe, Japan, Nov. 20-24, 2012.
- Zwick, M. (2011). “Reconstructability Analysis of Epistasis.” Annals of Human Genetics, vol. 75, issue 1, pp. 157-171. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2010.00628.x.
- Shervais., S., Kramer, P., Westaway, S., Cox, N., and Zwick M. (2010). “Reconstructability Analysis As A Tool For Identifying Gene-Gene Interactions In Studies Of Human Diseases.” Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology. vol. 9, issue 1.
- Wilmot, B., Zwick, M., and McWeeney, S. (2008). “Reconstructability Analysis Detects Genetic Variation Associated with Gene Expression.” 12th QTL-MAS Workshop in Computational Genetics, Uppsala, Sweden, May 15-16.
- Zwick, M. (2007). “Using Reconstructability Analysis for Input Variable Reduction: A Business Example.” 2007 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2007), Las Vegas, July 13-15, 2007.
- Wright, A., Ricciardi, T., and Zwick, M. (2005). “Application of Information-Theoretic Data Mining Techniques in a National Ambulatory Practice Outcomes Research Network.” American Medical Informatics Association annual symposium, Washington DC, Oct. 22-26.