About

I am a CS PhD student at Stanford University. I am excited about applications of machine learning to real-world problems. Previously, I have constructed machine learning algorithms for natural language processing, bioinformatics, and health tech. In my current work at the Snyder lab we are investigating the potential and use of wearable biomedical devices and fitness trackers.

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Publications

SignalP 6.0 predicts all five types of signal peptides using protein language models
F. Teufel, J.J.A. Armenteros, A.R. Johansen, M.H. Gislason, S.I. Pihl, K.D. Tsirigos, O. Winther, S. Brunak, G.V. Heijne, H. Nielsen
Nature Biotechnology, 2022
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Deep protein representations enable recombinant protein expression prediction
H.M. Martiny, J.J.A. Armenteros, A.R. Johansen, J. Salomon, H. Nielsen
Computational Biology and Chemistry, 2021
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Prediction of GPI-Anchored proteins with pointer neural networks
M.H. Gislason, H. Nielsen, J.J.A. Armenteros*, A.R. Johansen* (*equal contribution)
Current Research in Biotechnology, 2021
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Short Term Blood Glucose Prediction based on Continuous Glucose Monitoring Data
A. Mohebbi, A.R. Johansen, N. Hansen, P.E. Christensen, J.M. Tarp, M.L. Jensen, H. Bengtsson, M. Mørup
IEEE EMBC, 2020
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Neural Arithmetic Units
A. Madsen, A.R. Johansen
ICLR (Spotlight), 2020
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Language modelling for biological sequences curated datasets and baselines
J.J.A. Armenteros*, A.R. Johansen*, O. Winther, H. Nielsen (*equal contribution)
Preprint and website, 2019
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Autoencoding undirected molecular graphs with neural networks
J.J.W. Olsen, P.E. Christensen, M.H. Hansen, A.R. Johansen
Under review Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2019
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Measuring Arithmetic Extrapolation Performance
A. Madsen, A.R. Johansen
SEDL Workshop @ NeurIPS, 2019
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An introduction to deep learning on biological sequence data - examples and solutions
V.I. Jurtz, A.R. Johansen, M. Nielsen, J.J.A. Armenteros, H. Nielsen, C.K. Sønderby, O. Winther, S.K. Sønderby
Oxford Bioinformatics, 2017
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Deep Recurrent Conditional Random Field Network for Protein Secondary Prediction
A.R. Johansen, C.K. Sønderby, S.K. Sønderby, O. Winther
ACM BCB, 2017
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A deep learning approach to adherence detection for type 2 diabetics
A. Mohebbi, T.B. Aradóttir, A.R. Johansen, H. Bengtsson, M. Fraccaro, and M. Mørup
IEEE EMBC, 2017
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Learning when to skim and when to read
A.R. Johansen, R. Socher
REPL4NLP Workshop @ ACL, 2017
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Neural Machine Translation with Characters and Hierarchical Encoding
A.R. Johansen, J.M. Hansen, E.K. Obeid, C.K. Sønderby, O. Winther
RNN Symposium @ NIPS, 2016
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Epileptiform spike detection via convolutional neural networks
A.R. Johansen, J. Jin, T. Maszczyk, J. Dauwels, S.S. Cash, M.B. Westover
IEEE ICASSP, 2016
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Supervising

At my time at the Technical University of Denmark together with Jose J.A. Armenteros I have supervised graduate students and independent researchers. This has continued after I have transitioned to my PhD at Stanford. If you are interested in joining our lab please write me an email with you resume and detail your background in machine learning. Below are listed titles of the M.Sc. Thesis' and independent research projects I have co-supervised.

Wearipedia
Includes approx 10 Stanford Undergraduate students.
2021-23

Protein subcellular localization
Vineet Thumuluri
2022

Prediction of Quiescent stem cell populations in scRNA-seq transcriptomes
Felix Teufel
Spring, 2021

Prediction of enzyme solubility in E. Coli
Vineet Thumuluri
2021

Predicting the thermostability of enzymes from protein sequences using neural networks and transfer learning
Gustav Lindved
2020

SignalP 6.0 achieves complete signal peptide prediction using deep protein representations
Felix Teufel
2020

Exploratory methods for annotating data structures by decompositions of difficult questions
Gabriel Enemark-Broholm and Marcus Skov Hansen
2020

Multi-label prediction of protein subcellular localization using deep learning
Morten Skovsted
2019

Generalized autoregressive pretraining for improved understanding of proteins
Magnus Nolsøe and Frederik Wollesen Andersen
2019

Partially autoregressive language modelling and editing of discrete sequences' thesis
Daniel Horvath
2019

Prediction of sorting signals in eukaryotic proteins using deep learning
Magnús Halldór Gíslason
2019

Visual question answering using structured exploration and reinforcement learning
Jacob Johansen
2019

Evaluation of contextual molecular representations on predicting structural properties in binarized molecules
Jeppe Waarkjær Olsen
2019

Evaluation of contextual amino acid representations on the prediction of N-terminal targeting peptides based on deep learning
Silas Pihl
2019

Formal Language in Natural Language Processing
Raja Shan Zaker Krenn
2019

Predicting Recombinant Gene Expression in Bacillus using Deep Learning Techniques
Hannah-Marie Martiny
2019

Evaluation of Pre-trained Amino Acid Embeddings in Protein Prediction Tasks
Mikkel Møller Brusen and Gustav Madslund
2019
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Community

Previously, to build a strong deep learning community in Denmark I organized events for students with machine learning researchers and interested companies. This has led to 7 events with +1.5k student participants and sponsors such as Nordea, KPMG, Novozymes, Oticon, and Novo Nordisk. Post COVID I hope to make similar efforts in the bay area.

Deep Learning Copenhagen
Organizing events centered around maching learning technologies
2018-2020
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Teaching

Below you can find a list over courses I have taught in.

DTU course 02456 Deep learning
Head teaching assistant, designed programming exercises in PyTorch
Fall, 2019
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DTU special course Deep reinforcement learning
Co-intructor, designed and evaluated course
June, 2019

DTU special course Introduction to reinforcement learning
Intructor, designed and evaluated course
Spring, 2019

DTU course 02456 Deep learning
Head teaching assistant, developed programming exercises in PyTorch
Fall, 2018
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DTU course 02456 Deep learning
Teaching assistant, developed programming exercises in TensorFlow
Fall, 2016
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Nvidia Deep Learning using TensorFlow
Exercise instructor, developed programming exercises in TensorFlow
September, 2016
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