Peter Sykacek
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Peter Sykacek
Institute of Computational Biology
Location Muthgasse 18, 1190 Wien
Email peter.sykacek@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-79165
Medical statistics Molecular biology Medical biotechnology Machine learning Bioinformatics Medical molecular biology Computer-aided diagnosis and therapy Medical biotechnology
Career
- 2006 Group leader Analytical Methods Develompent at the Science Chair of Bioinformatics, Department of Biotechnology, Boku University, Vienna, Austria.
- 2004 - 2005 Senior Statistician and bioinformatician at the Depatrments of Pathology and Genetics, University of Cambridge, UK.
- 2000 - 2003 Post doctoral scientist at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK.
- 1996 - 2000 Post graduate scienctist at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI); Completion of PhD with distinction in June 2000.
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Presentations
15 lecures found.
Year: 2025 - Decoding the morphological structure of an African Nile tilapia population with probabilistic machine learning
Art: Vortrag - Keynote Speaker (eingeladener Vortrag)
Autoren: Sykacek, P
Event: 10. WABO Student Conference 2025
Period: 03.06.2025 - 03.06.2025 | Location: Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Wien, Österreich | Organizer: BOKU University
Year: 2019 - Comparison of Unsupervised Learning Methods for Natural Image Processing
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Wöber, W; Tibihika, P, D; Olaverri-Monreal, C; Mehnen, L; Sykacek, P; Meimberg, H
Event: Biodiversity Next 2019 - Building a global infrastructure for biodiversity data. Together.
Period: 22.10.2019 - 25.10.2019 | Location: Leiden, Netherlands
Year: 2018 - Model- and Hyperspectral Imaging-based Techniques to Enhance the Root Phenotyping Pipeline
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Rewald, B; Zhao, J; Leitner, D; Sykacek, P; Bodner, G
Event: ISRR-10 2018 - Exposing the hidden half. Root Research at the Forefront of Science, International Symposium
Period: 08.07.2018 - 12.07.2018 | Location: Jerusalem, Israel | Organizer: International Society of Root Research
Year: 2018 - From Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations to Resistance Phenotypes: Semi-Automated Breakpoint Interpretation
Art: Poster - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Beneder, V; Beisken, S; Sykacek, P; Posch, A, E
Event: German Conference on Bioinformatics 2018
Period: 25.09.2018 - 28.09.2018 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2018 - Enhancing our understanding of root systems using model-based techniques on phenotyping data
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Rewald, B; Zhao, J; Leitner, D; Sykacek, P; Bodner, G
Event: 48th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland GfÖ 2018 - Ecology – Meeting the Scientific Challenges of a complex World
Period: 10.09.2018 - 14.09.2018 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2017 - Big Data in Biology and Medical Research
Art: Vortrag - Keynote Speaker (eingeladener Vortrag)
Autoren: Sykacek P
Event: Omics - Technologie der Zukunft zur Untersuchung komplexer biologischer Netzwerke
Period: 03.05.2017 | Location: Munich, Germany
Year: 2017 - Using supervised machine learning to explore Vicia faba adaptations to agro-climatic conditions
Art: Poster - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Zhao, J; Sykacek, P; Bodner, G; Rewald, B
Event: COST WG1 / EPPN2020 workshop - Current and future applications of phenotyping for plant breeding
Period: 29.09.2017 - 30.09.2017 | Location: Novi Sad, Republic of Serbia
Year: 2017 - Towards malignancy directed subclassifying of complex diseases
Art: Vortrag - Keynote Speaker (eingeladener Vortrag)
Autoren: Sykacek P
Event: Computational Approaches in Precision Medicine 2017
Period: 27.07.2017 - 28.07.2017 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2016 - Machine learning approaches allow for determination of important root traits and enhance differentiation of legumes cultivars
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Zhao, J; Sykacek, P; Bodner, G; Rewald, B
Event: 2nd International Legume Society Conference: Legumes for a sustainable world 2016
Period: 11.10.2016 - 14.10.2016 | Location: Troia, Portugal
Year: 2016 - Machine learning approaches for root traits exploration
Art: Poster - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Zhao, J; Bodner, G; Sykacek, P; Rewald, B
Event: 1. Student Conference, Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, 2016
Period: 24.05.2016 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2013 - Statistical challenges of 1000$ genome sequences in plants: Lessons of TD0801-STATSEQ
Art: Vortrag - Keynote Speaker (eingeladener Vortrag)
Autoren: P. Sykacek
Event: International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment 2013
Period: 19.09.2013 - 22.09.2013 | Location: Corfu, Greece
Year: 2013 - Functional Annotation of Biological Experiments by Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling of Controlled Vocabularies and High Throughput Measurements
Art: Vortrag - Keynote Speaker (eingeladener Vortrag)
Autoren: P. Sykacek
Event: Österreichische Statistiktage 2013
Period: 23.10.2013 - 25.10.2013 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2012 - Implications of fragment length on quantifying alternative transcripts with RNA-SEQ
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: P. Sykacek
Event: 14th. MAQC/SEQC Meeting 2012
Period: 01.05.2012 - 02.05.2012 | Location: Silver Spring, MD, USA
Year: 2011 - Sensitivity analysis in next generation sequencing quality control
Art: Vortrag - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: P. Sykacek, D.P. Kreil and P. Labaj
Event: 13th MAQC/SEQC Project Meeting 2011
Period: 13.09.2011 - 14.09.2011 | Location: Cary, NC, USA
Year: 2008 - Estimating Variance Components using Variational Bayes
Art: Poster - Ausgewählte Präsentation
Autoren: Thomas Tuechler, Peter Sykacek, David P. Kreil
Event: European Conference on Compuational Biology, ECCB Satellite Meeting on Probabilistic Modelling in Computational Biology PMCB 2008
Period: 22.09.2008 | Location: Cagliari, Italy