Owen Queen

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ProCyon: A multimodal foundation model for protein phenotypes

Owen Queen, Yepeng Huang, Robert Calef, Valentina Giunchiglia, Tianlong Chen, George Dasoulas, LeAnn Tai, Gianmarco Abbadessa, Owain Howell, Michelle M. Li, Yasha Ektefaie, Ayush Noori, Ildiko Farkas, Joseph Brown, Tom Cobley, Karin Hrovatin, Tom Hartvigsen, Fabian J. Theis, Bradley L. Pentelute, James Zou, Vikram Khurana, David Owen, Richard Nicholas, Manolis Kellis, Marinka Zitnik

bioRxiv · 2025

ProCyon is an 11B-parameter model that predicts and generates protein phenotypes across molecular and therapeutic scales, enabling transfer to poorly characterized proteins.

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Graph AI in Medicine

Ruth Johnson, Michelle M Li*, Ayush Noori*, Owen Queen*, Marinka Zitnik

Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science · 2024

We survey graph machine learning for biomedical applications, outlining how relational models and emerging foundation models can deliver clinically meaningful predictions.

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Encoding Time-Series Explanations through Self-Supervised Model Behavior Consistency

Owen Queen, Thomas Hartvigsen, Teddy Koker, Huan He, Theodoros Tsiligkaridis, Marinka Zitnik

Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) · 2023

TimeX learns interpretable surrogate masks that mirror predictor behavior through a novel consistency loss, delivering faithful explanations for time-series models.

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Domain Adaptation for Time Series Under Feature and Label Shifts

Huan He, Owen Queen, Teddy Koker, Consuelo Cuevas, Theodoros Tsiligkaridis, Marinka Zitnik

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) · 2023

RAINCOAT introduces a domain adaptation framework tailored to time series, achieving state-of-the-art performance even when shifts appear in both features and labels.

Evaluating explainability for graph neural networks

Chirag Agarwal*, Owen Queen*, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Marinka Zitnik

Scientific Data · 2023

GraphXAI benchmarks GNN explainers with new datasets, metrics, and evaluation flows that now inform tooling such as PyTorch Geometric.

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Polymer graph neural networks for multitask property learning

Owen Queen, Gavin A. McCarver, Saitheeraj Thatigotla, Brendan P. Abolins, Cameron L. Brown, Vasileios Maroulas, Konstantinos D. Vogiatzis

npj Computational Materials · 2023

We design a GNN architecture for polymer property prediction, achieving state-of-the-art performance and enabling high-throughput materials search.

Protein Language Models for Explainable Fine-Grained Evolutionary Pattern Discovery

Ashley Babjac*, Owen Queen*, Shawn-Patrick Barhorst, Kambiz Kalhor, Andrew D. Steen, Scott J. Emrich

2023 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), DLBIBM Workshop · 2023

We fine-tune protein language models on microbial genomics data and pair them with structure-aware explanations to reveal functional differences between surface and subsurface proteins.

Deep Learning for Reference-Free Geolocation of Poplar Trees

Cai W John*, Owen Queen*, Wellington Muchero, Scott J Emrich

NeurIPS 2022 AI for Science: Progress and Promises · 2022

Using motif-level genomic summaries, we predict poplar tree locations without full genome alignment, matching the performance of whole-genome approaches.

LASSO-based feature selection for improved microbial and microbiome classification

Owen Queen, Scott J Emrich

2021 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) · 2021

LASSO-driven feature selection reliably identifies informative genomic features for sepsis prediction and environmental profiling in microbial datasets.