I have been updating my publications page by editing markdown for several years. Today I updated my self-citation database, TDH-refs.bib, to be consistent with that publications page. In this post we explore the extent to which it would be possible to generate the publications page, using the bib file as a source.

Parse bib into R

Parsing bibtex files is easy using regex. In fact, that is one of the examples on ?nc::capture_all_str:

refs.bib <- "~/tdhock.github.io/assets/TDH-refs.bib"
refs.vec <- readLines(refs.bib)
at.lines <- grep("^@", refs.vec, value=TRUE)
str(at.lines)

##  chr [1:73] "@unpublished{Agyapong2026poisson," "@unpublished{Agyapong2026fused," ...

The output above shows that there are currently 73 lines that start with @ in the bib file. Below we use a regex to convert each item into one row of a data table:

refs.dt <- nc::capture_all_str(
  refs.vec,
  "@",
  type="[^{]+", tolower,
  "[{]",
  ref="[^,]+",
  ",\n",
  fields="(?:.*\n)+?.*",
  "[}]\\s*(?:$|\n)")
str(refs.dt)

## Classes 'data.table' and 'data.frame':	73 obs. of  3 variables:
##  $ type  : chr  "unpublished" "unpublished" "unpublished" "unpublished" ...
##  $ ref   : chr  "Agyapong2026poisson" "Agyapong2026fused" "Amoakohene2025asymptotic" "Oliveira2025governance" ...
##  $ fields: chr  "  title={Identifying regimes where graphical models out-perform linear models for microbiome counts},\n  note={"| __truncated__ "  title={Fused Lasso Improves Accuracy of Co-occurrence Network Inference in Grouped Samples},\n  note={Preprin"| __truncated__ "  title={Asymptotic benchmarking using the atime package},\n  author={Amoakohene, D and Chetia, A and Steinmach"| __truncated__ "  title=,\n  author={Oliveira, P a"| __truncated__ ...
##  - attr(*, ".internal.selfref")=<externalptr>

The output above shows that the bib file was converted to a table with 73 rows.

Parsing fields

First we look at the number of lines with an equals sign, each of which is probably a field.

eq.lines <- grep("=", refs.vec, value=TRUE)
str(eq.lines)

##  chr [1:561] "  title={Identifying regimes where graphical models out-perform linear models for microbiome counts}," ...

Above we see 561 fields.

Below we parse the fields column:

strip <- function(x)gsub("^\\s*|,\\s*$", "", gsub('[{}"]', "", x))
field.pattern <- list(
  "\\s*",
  variable="[^= ]+", tolower,
  "\\s*=",
  value=".*", strip)  
(refs.fields <- refs.dt[, nc::capture_all_str(
  fields, field.pattern),
  by=.(type, ref)])

##             type                 ref  variable
##           <char>              <char>    <char>
##   1: unpublished Agyapong2026poisson     title
##   2: unpublished Agyapong2026poisson      note
##   3: unpublished Agyapong2026poisson    author
##   4: unpublished Agyapong2026poisson     links
##   5: unpublished Agyapong2026poisson      year
##  ---                                          
## 557:     article  Doyon2008heritable    number
## 558:     article  Doyon2008heritable     pages
## 559:     article  Doyon2008heritable      year
## 560:     article  Doyon2008heritable     links
## 561:     article  Doyon2008heritable publisher
##                                                                                           value
##                                                                                          <char>
##   1: Identifying regimes where graphical models out-perform linear models for microbiome counts
##   2:                                                                                In Progress
##   3:                   Daniel Agyapong and Julien Chiquet and Jane Marks and Toby Dylan Hocking
##   4:                                  [Reproducible](https://github.com/EngineerDanny/pln_eval)
##   5:                                                                                       2026
##  ---                                                                                           
## 557:                                                                                          6
## 558:                                                                                   702--708
## 559:                                                                                       2008
## 560:                                      [Pubmed](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18500334)
## 561:                                                        Nature Publishing Group US New York

Above we see 561 fields, consistent with the simpler grep parsing above. If it is not consistent, we can use the code below to find out where:

(eq.dt <- nc::capture_first_vec(eq.lines, field.pattern))

##       variable                                                                                      value
##         <char>                                                                                     <char>
##   1:     title Identifying regimes where graphical models out-perform linear models for microbiome counts
##   2:      note                                                                                In Progress
##   3:    author                   Daniel Agyapong and Julien Chiquet and Jane Marks and Toby Dylan Hocking
##   4:     links                                  [Reproducible](https://github.com/EngineerDanny/pln_eval)
##   5:      year                                                                                       2026
##  ---                                                                                                     
## 557:    number                                                                                          6
## 558:     pages                                                                                   702--708
## 559:      year                                                                                       2008
## 560:     links                                      [Pubmed](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18500334)
## 561: publisher                                                        Nature Publishing Group US New York

eq.dt[!refs.fields, on=.(variable,value)]

## Empty data.table (0 rows and 2 cols): variable,value

eq.counts <- eq.dt[, .(eq.count=.N), by=.(variable,value)]
refs.fields[, .(ref.count=.N), by=.(variable,value)][eq.counts,on=.(variable,value)][eq.count!=ref.count]

## Empty data.table (0 rows and 4 cols): variable,value,ref.count,eq.count

Verify clean

Normally there should not be any quotes or curly braces in fields:

cat(grep('[{}"]', refs.fields$value, value=TRUE), sep="\n\n")

Formatting the parsed data

The publications page is organized as follows

  • chronologically, newest on top.
  • heading ### for in progress, and each year.
  • bullet - for each publication.

Each publication has

  • Names like Last1 F1, Last2 F2.
  • Title then period.
  • Venue/publisher.
  • then links.

The links at the end are not stored in the bib file, so that is not possible to output. (exercise for reader!)

But we can get the other info.

Venues

library(data.table)

## data.table 1.17.99 IN DEVELOPMENT built 2025-09-05 15:39:30 UTC using 3 threads (see ?getDTthreads).  Latest news: r-datatable.com
## **********
## This development version of data.table was built more than 4 weeks ago. Please update: data.table::update_dev_pkg()
## **********

refs.wide <- dcast(refs.fields, type + ref ~ variable)
fwrite(refs.wide,"../assets/TDH-refs.csv")
refs.wide[, .(
  type,
  year,
  journal=substr(journal,1,10),
  vol=volume, num=number,
  booktitle=substr(booktitle,1,10),
  note=substr(note,1,10),
  school=substr(school,1,10))]

## Key: <type>
##              type   year    journal    vol    num  booktitle       note     school
##            <char> <char>     <char> <char> <char>     <char>     <char>     <char>
##  1:       article   2021 Functional     35      4       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
##  2:       article   2025 BMC Bioinf     26     74       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
##  3:       article   2018 The Americ    103      4       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
##  4:       article   2022 Journal of     31      4       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
##  5:       article   2024 Journal of      1      3       <NA> e2024JH000       <NA>
##  6:       article   2022 ACM Trans.     29      2       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
##  7:       article   2016 Clinical C     22     22       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
##  8:       article   2018 JNCI: Jour    110     10       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
##  9:       article   2018 Scientific      5      1       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 10:       article   2008 Nature bio     26      6       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 11:       article   2021 Computers     130   <NA>       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 12:       article   2010   PLoS one      5      8       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 13:       article   2024 Environmen     19     11       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 14:       article   2023 IEEE Robot      8      8       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 15:       article   2023 Journal of     24     70       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 16:       article   2013 BMC Bioinf     14    164       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 17:       article   2013 Journal of     54   <NA>       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 18:       article   2014 Bioinforma     30     11       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 19:       article   2017 Bioinforma     33      4       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 20:       article   2019 The R Jour     11      2       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 21:       article   2020 Journal of     21     87       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 22:       article   2021 The R Jour     13      1       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 23:       article   2022 Journal of    101     10       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 24:       article   2023 Computatio     38   <NA>       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 25:       article   2019 Biostatist     21      4       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 26:       article   2024 Journal of     33      4       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 27:       article   2021 BMC Bioinf     22    323       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 28:       article   2017 Statistics     27   <NA>       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 29:       article   2022 Biology Me      7      1       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 30:       article   2025 Statistics     35   <NA>       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 31:       article   2023 Journal of    106      6       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 32:       article   2016   Leukemia     30      7       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 33:       article   2019 Journal of     28      2       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 34:       article   2014 Cancer Sci    105      7       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 35:       article   2023     Nature    618   <NA>       <NA> DOI:10.103       <NA>
## 36:       article   2024     Nature    627   8002       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 37:       article   2022 Journal of     31      2       <NA>       <NA>       <NA>
## 38:  incollection   2022       <NA>   <NA>   <NA> Land Carbo       <NA>       <NA>
## 39: inproceedings   2022       <NA>   <NA>   <NA> 2022 Fourt       <NA>       <NA>
## 40: inproceedings   2022       <NA>   <NA>   <NA> 2022 fourt       <NA>       <NA>
## 41: inproceedings   2017       <NA>   <NA>   <NA> Advances i       <NA>       <NA>
## 42: inproceedings   2020       <NA>   <NA>   <NA> 2020 54th        <NA>       <NA>
## 43: inproceedings   2020       <NA>   <NA>   <NA> 2020 42nd        <NA>       <NA>
## 44: inproceedings   2011       <NA>   <NA>   <NA> 28th inter       <NA>       <NA>
## 45: inproceedings   2013       <NA>   <NA>   <NA> Proc. 30th       <NA>       <NA>
## 46: inproceedings   2015       <NA>   <NA>   <NA> Proc. 32nd       <NA>       <NA>
## 47: inproceedings   2020       <NA>     25   <NA> Proc. Paci       <NA>       <NA>
## 48: inproceedings   2022       <NA>   <NA>   <NA> 2022 Fourt       <NA>       <NA>
## 49: inproceedings   2021       <NA>   <NA>   <NA> 2021 IEEE        <NA>       <NA>
## 50: inproceedings   2023       <NA>   <NA>   <NA> 2023 Inter       <NA>       <NA>
## 51:     phdthesis   2012       <NA>   <NA>   <NA>       <NA>       <NA> Ecole norm
## 52:   unpublished   2025       <NA>   <NA>   <NA>       <NA> Preprint a       <NA>
## 53:   unpublished   2026       <NA>   <NA>   <NA>       <NA> In Progres       <NA>
## 54:   unpublished   2025       <NA>   <NA>   <NA>       <NA> Under revi       <NA>
## 55:   unpublished   2024       <NA>   <NA>   <NA>       <NA> Preprint a       <NA>
## 56:   unpublished   2015       <NA>   <NA>   <NA>       <NA> Preprint a       <NA>
## 57:   unpublished   2016       <NA>   <NA>   <NA>       <NA> Tutorial a       <NA>
## 58:   unpublished   2017       <NA>   <NA>   <NA>       <NA> Tutorial a       <NA>
## 59:   unpublished   2023       <NA>   <NA>   <NA>       <NA> In progres       <NA>
## 60:   unpublished   2025       <NA>   <NA>   <NA>       <NA> Under revi       <NA>
## 61:   unpublished   2024       <NA>   <NA>   <NA>       <NA> Preprint a       <NA>
## 62:   unpublished   2024       <NA>   <NA>   <NA>       <NA> In progres       <NA>
## 63:   unpublished   2024       <NA>   <NA>   <NA>       <NA> In progres       <NA>
## 64:   unpublished   2024       <NA>   <NA>   <NA>       <NA> Preprint a       <NA>
## 65:   unpublished   2026       <NA>   <NA>   <NA>       <NA> Abstract s       <NA>
## 66:   unpublished   2025       <NA>   <NA>   <NA>       <NA> Preprint a       <NA>
## 67:   unpublished   2025       <NA>   <NA>   <NA>       <NA> Preprint a       <NA>
## 68:   unpublished   2025       <NA>   <NA>   <NA>       <NA> ICSME (Int       <NA>
## 69:   unpublished   2023       <NA>   <NA>   <NA>       <NA> Preprint a       <NA>
## 70:   unpublished   2025       <NA>   <NA>   <NA>       <NA> Under revi       <NA>
## 71:   unpublished   2024       <NA>   <NA>   <NA>       <NA> Under revi       <NA>
## 72:   unpublished   2024       <NA>   <NA>   <NA>       <NA> In progres       <NA>
## 73:   unpublished   2014       <NA>   <NA>   <NA>       <NA> Preprint a       <NA>
##              type   year    journal    vol    num  booktitle       note     school
##            <char> <char>     <char> <char> <char>     <char>     <char>     <char>

As can be seen in the table above, we can use various fields to define the venue of publication:

  • article: most journal articles have a volume and number. The only exception is a recently published article that has not yet been assigned a volume.
  • incollection and inproceedings: can use booktitle.
  • unpublished: can use note.
  • phdthesis: can use school.

These rules are encoded below,

refs.wide[, venue := fcase(
  type=="article", paste0(
    journal, ifelse(
      is.na(volume),
      paste0(", DOI: ", gsub("[.]", " . ", doi)),
      paste0(
        " ",
        volume,
        ifelse(is.na(number), "", sprintf("(%s)", number))
      )
    )
  ),
  type=="inproceedings", booktitle,
  type=="incollection", sprintf("Chapter in %s, edited by %s, published by %s", booktitle, editor, publisher),
  type=="phdthesis", paste("PHD thesis,", school),
  type=="unpublished", note
)][, .(type, year, venue=substr(venue, nchar(venue)-30,nchar(venue)))]

## Key: <type>
##              type   year                           venue
##            <char> <char>                          <char>
##  1:       article   2021        Functional Ecology 35(4)
##  2:       article   2025       BMC Bioinformatics 26(74)
##  3:       article   2018 ournal of Human Genetics 103(4)
##  4:       article   2022  and Graphical Statistics 31(4)
##  5:       article   2024 e Learning and Computation 1(3)
##  6:       article   2022 s. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 29(2)
##  7:       article   2016 Clinical Cancer Research 22(22)
##  8:       article   2018 tional Cancer Institute 110(10)
##  9:       article   2018            Scientific data 5(1)
## 10:       article   2008      Nature biotechnology 26(6)
## 11:       article   2021 ers in Biology and Medicine 130
## 12:       article   2010                   PLoS one 5(8)
## 13:       article   2024 nmental Research Letters 19(11)
## 14:       article   2023 ics and Automation Letters 8(8)
## 15:       article   2023 achine Learning Research 24(70)
## 16:       article   2013      BMC Bioinformatics 14(164)
## 17:       article   2013 rnal of Statistical Software 54
## 18:       article   2014           Bioinformatics 30(11)
## 19:       article   2017            Bioinformatics 33(4)
## 20:       article   2019             The R Journal 11(2)
## 21:       article   2020 achine Learning Research 21(87)
## 22:       article   2021             The R Journal 13(1)
## 23:       article   2022 of Statistical Software 101(10)
## 24:       article   2023     Computational Statistics 38
## 25:       article   2019             Biostatistics 21(4)
## 26:       article   2024  and Graphical Statistics 33(4)
## 27:       article   2021      BMC Bioinformatics 22(323)
## 28:       article   2017     Statistics and Computing 27
## 29:       article   2022 logy Methods and Protocols 7(1)
## 30:       article   2025     Statistics and Computing 35
## 31:       article   2023  of Statistical Software 106(6)
## 32:       article   2016                  Leukemia 30(7)
## 33:       article   2019  and Graphical Statistics 28(2)
## 34:       article   2014               Cancer Sci 105(7)
## 35:       article   2023                      Nature 618
## 36:       article   2024                Nature 627(8002)
## 37:       article   2022  and Graphical Statistics 31(2)
## 38:  incollection   2022 iqi Luo, published by CRC Press
## 39: inproceedings   2022  Transdisciplinary AI (TransAI)
## 40: inproceedings   2022  transdisciplinary AI (TransAI)
## 41: inproceedings   2017 formation Processing Systems 30
## 42: inproceedings   2020 Signals, Systems, and Computers
## 43: inproceedings   2020 Medicine Biology Society (EMBC)
## 44: inproceedings   2011  conference on machine learning
## 45: inproceedings   2013                 Proc. 30th ICML
## 46: inproceedings   2015                 Proc. 32nd ICML
## 47: inproceedings   2020 cific Symposium on Biocomputing
## 48: inproceedings   2022  Transdisciplinary AI (TransAI)
## 49: inproceedings   2021 Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)
## 50: inproceedings   2023 Technology and Computing (IETC)
## 51:     phdthesis   2012 le normale supérieure de Cachan
## 52:   unpublished   2025 mputers in Biology and Medicine
## 53:   unpublished   2026                     In Progress
## 54:   unpublished   2025       Under review at R Journal
## 55:   unpublished   2024 w at Computational Intelligence
## 56:   unpublished   2015       Preprint arXiv:1509.00368
## 57:   unpublished   2016 onference, textbook in progress
## 58:   unpublished   2017 onference, textbook in progress
## 59:   unpublished   2023                     In progress
## 60:   unpublished   2025 Journal of Statistical Software
## 61:   unpublished   2024  Canadian Journal of Statistics
## 62:   unpublished   2024                     In progress
## 63:   unpublished   2024                     In progress
## 64:   unpublished   2024 stical Analysis and Data Mining
## 65:   unpublished   2026 mitted to INSAR 2026 conference
## 66:   unpublished   2025 iew at Computational Statistics
## 67:   unpublished   2025 iew at Statistics and Computing
## 68:   unpublished   2025 enance and Evolution), Sep 2025
## 69:   unpublished   2023 al of Machine Learning Research
## 70:   unpublished   2025 r review at Academic Pediatrics
## 71:   unpublished   2024  Observation and Geoinformation
## 72:   unpublished   2024                     In progress
## 73:   unpublished   2014        Preprint arXiv:1401.8008
##              type   year                           venue
##            <char> <char>                          <char>

Authors

Author names come in two forms:

  • Family, Given1 Given2
  • Given1 Given2 Family
subject <- c("Toby Dylan Hocking", "Hocking, Toby Dylan")
alt.pattern <- nc::alternatives_with_shared_groups(
  family="[A-Z][^,]+",
  given="[^,]+",
  list("^", given, " ", family, "$"),
  list("^", family, ", ", given, "$"))
nc::capture_first_vec(subject, alt.pattern)

##         given  family
##        <char>  <char>
## 1: Toby Dylan Hocking
## 2: Toby Dylan Hocking

The pattern above matches either of the two forms. Below we use it to match all of the data.

(authors <- refs.wide[, {
  complete <- strsplit(author, split=" and ")[[1]]
  data.table(complete, nc::capture_first_vec(
    complete,
    alt.pattern,
    nomatch.error=FALSE))
}, by=ref
][
, abbrev := gsub("[a-z. ]", "", given)
][
, show := ifelse(is.na(family), complete, paste(family, abbrev))
][])

##                     ref             complete      given        family abbrev            show
##                  <char>               <char>     <char>        <char> <char>          <char>
##   1:     Abraham2021gut   Abraham, Andrew J.  Andrew J.       Abraham     AJ      Abraham AJ
##   2:     Abraham2021gut Prys-Jones, Tomos O.   Tomos O.    Prys-Jones     TO   Prys-Jones TO
##   3:     Abraham2021gut  De Cuyper, Annelies   Annelies     De Cuyper      A     De Cuyper A
##   4:     Abraham2021gut      Ridenour, Chase      Chase      Ridenour      C      Ridenour C
##   5:     Abraham2021gut   Hempson, Gareth P.  Gareth P.       Hempson     GP      Hempson GP
##  ---                                                                                        
## 417: Truong2024circular   Toby Dylan Hocking Toby Dylan       Hocking     TD      Hocking TD
## 418:  Venuto2014support            Venuto, D          D        Venuto      D        Venuto D
## 419:  Venuto2014support  Hocking, Toby Dylan Toby Dylan       Hocking     TD      Hocking TD
## 420:  Venuto2014support     Sphanurattana, L          L Sphanurattana      L Sphanurattana L
## 421:  Venuto2014support          Sugiyama, M          M      Sugiyama      M      Sugiyama M

The table above shows all names standardized to a common format in the show column. Below we verify that all names matched.

authors[is.na(family)]

## Empty data.table (0 rows and 6 cols): ref,complete,given,family,abbrev,show

The table above shows that there are no entries that did not match the regex, which is OK.

abbrev.dt <- authors[, .(
  authors_abbrev=paste(show, collapse=", ")
), by=ref]
abbrev.dt[, length(grep("Hocking",authors_abbrev))]

## [1] 73

The output above shows that there are 73 items for which I am listed as an author.

abbrev.dt[, .(ref, authors_abbrev=substr(authors_abbrev,1,30))]

##                                               ref                 authors_abbrev
##                                            <char>                         <char>
##  1:                                Abraham2021gut Abraham AJ, Prys-Jones TO, De 
##  2:                                Agyapong2025cv Agyapong D, Propster JR, Marks
##  3:                         Alirezaie2018clinpred Alirezaie N, Kernohan KD, Hart
##  4:                               Barnwal2022jcgs    Barnwal A, Cho H, Hocking T
##  5:                             Bodine2024mapping Bodine CS, Buscombe D, Hocking
##  6:                             Chaves2022chatbot Chaves AP, Egbert J, Hocking T
##  7:                             Chicard2016cancer Chicard M, Boyault S, Colmet D
##  8:                            Depuydt2018genomic Depuydt P, Boeva V, Hocking TD
##  9:                               Depuydt2018meta Depuydt P, Koster J, Boeva V, 
## 10:                            Doyon2008heritable Doyon Y, McCammon JM, Miller J
## 11:                        Fotoohinasab2021greedy Fotoohinasab A, Hocking T, Afg
## 12:                           Gautier2010bayesian Gautier M, Hocking TD, Foulley
## 13:                               Gurney2024power Gurney KR, Aslam B, Dass P, Ga
## 14:                         Harshe2023exoskeleton Harshe K, Williams JR, Hocking
## 15:                               Hillman2023jmlr          Hillman J, Hocking TD
## 16:                     Hocking2013bioinformatics Hocking TD, Schleiermacher G, 
## 17:                        Hocking2013sustainable Hocking TD, Wutzler T, Ponting
## 18:                     Hocking2014bioinformatics Hocking TD, Boeva V, Rigaill G
## 19:                            Hocking2017bioinfo Hocking TD, Goerner-Potvin P, 
## 20:                              Hocking2019regex                     Hocking TD
## 21:                               Hocking2020jmlr Hocking TD, Rigaill G, Fearnhe
## 22:                          Hocking2021reshaping                     Hocking TD
## 23:                                Hocking2022jss Hocking TD, Rigaill G, Fearnhe
## 24:                             Hocking2023lopart       Hocking TD, Srivastava A
## 25:                       Jewell2019biostatistics Jewell SW, Hocking TD, Fearnhe
## 26:                         Kaufman2024functional Kaufman JM, Stenberg AJ, Hocki
## 27:                          Liehrmann2021chipseq Liehrmann A, Rigaill G, Hockin
## 28:                          Maidstone2017optimal Maidstone R, Hocking T, Rigail
## 29:                      Mihaljevic2022sparsemodr Mihaljevic JR, Borkovec S, Rat
## 30:                                 Nguyen2025mlp          Nguyen TL, Hocking TD
## 31:                                  Runge2023jss Runge V, Hocking TD, Romano G,
## 32:                           Shimada2016leukemia Shimada K, Shimada S, Sugimoto
## 33:                               Sievert2019jcgs Sievert C, VanderPlas S, Cai J
## 34:                              Suguro2014cancer Suguro M, Yoshida N, Umino A, 
## 35:                                 Tao2023nature Tao F, Huang Y, Hungate BA, Ma
## 36:                                  Tao2024reply Tao F, Houlton BZ, Frey SD, Le
## 37:                      Vargovich2022breakpoints        Vargovich J, Hocking TD
## 38:                              Hocking2022intro                     Hocking TD
## 39:                           Barr2022classifying Barr JR, Hocking TD, Morton G,
## 40:                                 Barr2022graph Barr JR, Shaw P, Abu-Khzam FN,
## 41:                                Drouin2017mmit Drouin A, Hocking T, Laviolett
## 42: Fotoohinasab2020automaticQRSdetectionAsilomar Fotoohinasab A, Hocking T, Afg
## 43:              Fotoohinasab2020segmentationEMBC Fotoohinasab A, Hocking T, Afg
## 44:                        Hocking2011clusterpath Hocking TD, Joulin A, Bach F, 
## 45:                               Hocking2013icml Rigaill G, Hocking T, Vert J-P
## 46:                               Hocking2015icml Hocking TD, Rigaill G, Bourque
## 47:                                Hocking2020psb          Hocking TD, Bourque G
## 48:                      Hocking2022interpretable Hocking TD, Barr JR, Thatcher 
## 49:                                 Kolla2021fuzz  Kolla AC, Groce A, Hocking TD
## 50:                             Sweeney2023insect Sweeney N, Xu C, Shaw JA, Hock
## 51:                                Hocking2012phd                     Hocking TD
## 52:                             Agyapong2026fused Agyapong D, Beatty BH, Kennedy
## 53:                           Agyapong2026poisson Agyapong D, Chiquet J, Marks J
## 54:                      Amoakohene2025asymptotic Amoakohene D, Chetia A, Steinm
## 55:                                Fowler2024line           Fowler J, Hocking TD
## 56:                    Hocking2015breakpointError                     Hocking TD
## 57:                        Hocking2016interactive         Hocking TD, Ekstrøm CT
## 58:                        Hocking2017changepoint          Hocking TD, Killick R
## 59:                         Hocking2023functional                     Hocking TD
## 60:                         Hocking2024binsegRcpp                     Hocking TD
## 61:                             Hocking2024finite                     Hocking TD
## 62:                                Hocking2024hmm                     Hocking TD
## 63:                     Hocking2024mlr3resampling                     Hocking TD
## 64:                               Hocking2024soak Bodine CS, Thibault G, Arellan
## 65:                              Lindly2026autism Lindly O, Zuckerman K, Hocking
## 66:                           Nguyen2025automatic          Nguyen TL, Hocking TD
## 67:                         Nguyen2025comparative          Nguyen TL, Hocking TD
## 68:                        Oliveira2025governance Oliveira P, Amoakohene D, Hock
## 69:                                 Rust2023pairs            Rust KR, Hocking TD
## 70:                          Sutherland2025autism Sutherland V, Hocking TD, Folc
## 71:                            Thibault2024forest Thibault G, Morin-Bernard A, S
## 72:                            Truong2024circular           Truong C, Hocking TD
## 73:                             Venuto2014support Venuto D, Hocking TD, Sphanura
##                                               ref                 authors_abbrev
##                                            <char>                         <char>

The output above shows the abbreviated author list is reasonable.

Count article types

type2long <- c(
  article="journal paper",
  incollection="book chapter",
  inproceedings="conference paper",
  phdthesis="PHD thesis",
  unpublished="in progress")
refs.wide[, .(count=.N), by=.(Type=type2long[type])][order(-count)]

##                Type count
##              <char> <int>
## 1:    journal paper    37
## 2:      in progress    22
## 3: conference paper    12
## 4:     book chapter     1
## 5:       PHD thesis     1

Output markdown

The code below joins the authors back to the original table, then outputs markdown.

abbrev.wide <- refs.wide[
  abbrev.dt, on="ref"
][, let(
  heading = ifelse(type=="unpublished", "In progress", year),
  citation = sprintf("- %s (%s). %s. %s. %s", authors_abbrev, year, title, venue, links)
)][order(-heading, -year, authors_abbrev)]
abbrev.some <- abbrev.wide[unique(heading)[1:3], .SD[1:2], on="heading", by=heading]
abbrev.some <- abbrev.wide
abbrev.some[
, .(markdown=sprintf("### %s\n%s\n", heading, paste(citation, collapse="\n")))
, by=heading
][
, cat(paste(markdown, collapse="\n"))
]

In progress

  • Agyapong D, Chiquet J, Marks J, Hocking TD (2026). Identifying regimes where graphical models out-perform linear models for microbiome counts. In Progress. Reproducible
  • Lindly O, Zuckerman K, Hocking TD, Folch DC, Sutherland V, Curry T (2026). Predict, Profile, Prioritize: Machine Learning Reveals Hidden Patterns in Autism Service Access Disparities. Abstract submitted to INSAR 2026 conference. Reproducible
  • Agyapong D, Beatty BH, Kennedy PG, Marks JC, Hocking TD (2025). Fused Lasso Improves Accuracy of Co-occurrence Network Inference in Grouped Samples. Preprint arXiv:2509.09413, under review at Computers in Biology and Medicine. Reproducible, Software
  • Amoakohene D, Chetia A, Steinmacher I, Hocking TD (2025). Asymptotic benchmarking using the atime package. Under review at R Journal. Reproducible, Software
  • Hocking TD (2025). Comparing binsegRcpp with other implementations of binary segmentation for changepoint detection. Under review at Journal of Statistical Software. Preprint, Reproducible, Software
  • Nguyen TL, Hocking TD (2025). Penalty Learning for Optimal Partitioning via Automatic Feature Extraction. Preprint arXiv:2505.07413, under review at Computational Statistics. Preprint, Reproducible
  • Nguyen TL, Hocking TD (2025). Interval Regression: A Comparative Study with Proposed Models. Preprint arXiv:2503.02011, under review at Statistics and Computing. Preprint, Reproducible
  • Oliveira P, Amoakohene D, Hocking TD, Gerosa M, Steinmacher I (2025). Governance Matters: Lessons from Restructuring the data.table OSS Project. ICSME (International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution), Sep 2025. Abstract
  • Sutherland V, Hocking TD, Folch DC, Underwood Carrasco VI, Zuckerman KE, Lindly OJ (2025). Autism Diagnostic Determinations of Primary Care Providers from 2013 to 2023. Under review at Academic Pediatrics. Related poster Trends in Autism Diagnostic Determinations by Primary Care Providers Among U.S. Children from 2013 to 2023: Effects of Child Age, Race and Ethnicity, and Poverty Level was selected as one of the Top-Rated Abstracts at INSAR 2025 conference.
  • Bodine CS, Thibault G, Arellano PN, Shenkin AF, Lindly O, Hocking TD (2024). SOAK: Same/Other/All K-fold cross-validation for estimating similarity of patterns in data subsets. Preprint arXiv:2410.08643, under review at Statistical Analysis and Data Mining. Preprint, Software, Reproducible
  • Fowler J, Hocking TD (2024). Efficient line search for optimizing Area Under the ROC Curve in gradient descent. Preprint arXiv:2410.08635, under review at Computational Intelligence. Preprint, Talk announcement for JSM’23 Toronto, Video of talk at Université Laval July 2023, Slides PDF, source
  • Hocking TD (2024). Finite Sample Complexity Analysis of Binary Segmentation. Preprint arXiv:2410.08654, under review at Canadian Journal of Statistics. Preprint, Reproducible, Software
  • Hocking TD (2024). Teaching Hidden Markov Models Using Interactive Data Visualization. In progress. Reproducible, Slides
  • Hocking TD (2024). mlr3resampling: an R implementation of cross-validation for comparing models learned using different train subsets. In progress. Software
  • Thibault G, Morin-Bernard A, Sylvain J-D, Drolet G, Roussel J-R, Hocking TD, Achim A (2024). Spatial characterization of burn severity in a boreal forest using high-resolution satellite imagery. Under review at International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. NA
  • Truong C, Hocking TD (2024). Efficient change-point detection for multivariate circular data. In progress. Reproducible, Software
  • Hocking TD (2023). Why does functional pruning yield such fast algorithms for optimal changepoint detection?. In progress. Invited talk for TRIPODS seminar video, slides, IEEE NJACS, ASU West ML Day
  • Rust KR, Hocking TD (2023). A Log-linear Gradient Descent Algorithm for Unbalanced Binary Classification using the All Pairs Squared Hinge Loss. Preprint arXiv:2302.11062, under review at Journal of Machine Learning Research. Preprint
  • Hocking TD, Killick R (2017). Introduction to optimal changepoint detection algorithms. Tutorial at international useR 2017 conference, textbook in progress. Conference, Book, Reproducible
  • Hocking TD, Ekstrøm CT (2016). Understanding and Creating Interactive Graphics. Tutorial at international useR 2016 conference, textbook in progress. Conference, Manual, Reproducible
  • Hocking TD (2015). A breakpoint detection error function for segmentation model selection and validation. Preprint arXiv:1509.00368. Preprint, Software, Reproducible
  • Venuto D, Hocking TD, Sphanurattana L, Sugiyama M (2014). Support vector comparison machines. Preprint arXiv:1401.8008. Preprint, Software, Reproducible

2025

  • Agyapong D, Propster JR, Marks J, Hocking TD (2025). Cross-Validation for Training and Testing Co-occurrence Network Inference Algorithms. BMC Bioinformatics 26(74). Publisher, Preprint, Reproducible
  • Nguyen TL, Hocking TD (2025). Penalty Learning for Optimal Partitioning using Multilayer Perceptron. Statistics and Computing 35. Publisher, Preprint, Reproducible

2024

  • Bodine CS, Buscombe D, Hocking TD (2024). Automated River Substrate Mapping From Sonar Imagery With Machine Learning. Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation 1(3). DOI, Preprint, Software
  • Gurney KR, Aslam B, Dass P, Gawuc L, Hocking TD, Barber JJ, Kato A (2024). Assessment of the Climate Trace global powerplant CO2 emissions. Environmental Research Letters 19(11). Publisher
  • Kaufman JM, Stenberg AJ, Hocking TD (2024). Functional Labeled Optimal Partitioning. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 33(4). DOI, Preprint, Software, Reproducible, Preliminary code
  • Tao F, Houlton BZ, Frey SD, Lehmann J, Manzoni S, Huang Y, Jiang L, Mishra U, Hungate BA, Schmidt MWI, Reichstein M, Carvalhais N, Ciais P, Wang Y-P, Ahrens B, Hugelius G, Hocking TD, Lu X, Shi Z, Viatkin K, Vargas R, Yigini Y, Omuto C, Malik AA, Peralta G, Cuevas-Corona R, Paolo LED, Luotto I, Liao C, Liang Y-S, Saynes VS, Huang X, Luo Y (2024). Reply to: Model uncertainty obscures major driver of soil carbon. Nature 627(8002). Publisher, Preprint

2023

  • Harshe K, Williams JR, Hocking TD, Lerner ZF (2023). Predicting Neuromuscular Engagement to Improve Gait Training With a Robotic Ankle Exoskeleton. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 8(8). Publisher
  • Hillman J, Hocking TD (2023). Optimizing ROC Curves with a Sort-Based Surrogate Loss for Binary Classification and Changepoint Detection. Journal of Machine Learning Research 24(70). Publisher, Preprint, Software, Reproducible, Video
  • Hocking TD, Srivastava A (2023). Labeled optimal partitioning. Computational Statistics 38. Publisher, Preprint, Video, Software, Reproducible
  • Runge V, Hocking TD, Romano G, Afghah F, Fearnhead P, Rigaill G (2023). gfpop: An R Package for Univariate Graph-Constrained Change-Point Detection. Journal of Statistical Software 106(6). Publisher, Preprint, Software, GUI, Reproducible
  • Sweeney N, Xu C, Shaw JA, Hocking TD, Whitaker BM (2023). Insect Identification in Pulsed Lidar Images Using Changepoint Detection Algorithms. 2023 Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC). Publisher
  • Tao F, Huang Y, Hungate BA, Manzoni S, Frey SD, Schmidt MWI, Reichstein M, Carvalhais N, Ciais P, Jiang L, Lehmann J, Mishra U, Hugelius G, Hocking TD, Lu X, Shi Z, Viatkin K, Vargas R, Yigini Y, Omuto C, Malik AA, Perualta G, Cuevas-Corona R, Paolo LED, Luotto I, Liao C, Liang Y-S, Saynes VS, Huang X, Luo Y (2023). Microbial carbon use efficiency promotes global soil carbon storage. Nature 618. Publisher

2022

  • Barnwal A, Cho H, Hocking T (2022). Survival Regression with Accelerated Failure Time Model in XGBoost. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 31(4). Publisher, Preprint, Software, Documentation, Video, Reproducible
  • Barr JR, Hocking TD, Morton G, Thatcher T, Shaw P (2022). Classifying Imbalanced Data with AUM Loss. 2022 Fourth International Conference on Transdisciplinary AI (TransAI). Publisher
  • Barr JR, Shaw P, Abu-Khzam FN, Thatcher T, Hocking TD (2022). Graph embedding: A methodological survey. 2022 fourth international conference on transdisciplinary AI (TransAI). Publisher
  • Chaves AP, Egbert J, Hocking T, Doerry E, Gerosa MA (2022). Chatbots Language Design: The Influence of Language Variation on User Experience with Tourist Assistant Chatbots. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 29(2). Publisher, Preprint
  • Hocking TD (2022). Introduction to machine learning and neural networks. Chapter in Land Carbon Cycle Modeling: Matrix Approach, Data Assimilation, and Ecological Forecasting, edited by Yiqi Luo, published by CRC Press. Publisher, My chapter, Reproducible, Video
  • Hocking TD, Barr JR, Thatcher T (2022). Interpretable linear models for predicting security vulnerabilities in source code. 2022 Fourth International Conference on Transdisciplinary AI (TransAI). Publisher
  • Hocking TD, Rigaill G, Fearnhead P, Bourque G (2022). Generalized Functional Pruning Optimal Partitioning (GFPOP) for Constrained Changepoint Detection in Genomic Data. Journal of Statistical Software 101(10). Publisher, Software, Reproducible, Slides, Video
  • Mihaljevic JR, Borkovec S, Ratnavale S, Hocking TD, Banister KE, Eppinger JE, Hepp C, Doerry E (2022). SPARSEMODr: Rapidly simulate spatially explicit and stochastic models of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. Biology Methods and Protocols 7(1). Publisher, Preprint, Software
  • Vargovich J, Hocking TD (2022). Linear time dynamic programming for computing breakpoints in the regularization path of models selected from a finite set. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 31(2). Publisher, Preprint, Software, Reproducible

2021

  • Abraham AJ, Prys-Jones TO, De Cuyper A, Ridenour C, Hempson GP, Hocking T, Clauss M, Doughty CE (2021). Improved estimation of gut passage time considerably affects trait-based dispersal models. Functional Ecology 35(4). Publisher
  • Fotoohinasab A, Hocking T, Afghah F (2021). A greedy graph search algorithm based on changepoint analysis for automatic QRS complex detection. Computers in Biology and Medicine 130. Publisher, Preprint
  • Hocking TD (2021). Wide-to-tall Data Reshaping Using Regular Expressions and the nc Package. The R Journal 13(1). Publisher, Software, Reproducible
  • Kolla AC, Groce A, Hocking TD (2021). Fuzz Testing the Compiled Code in R Packages. 2021 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE). Publisher, Software, GitHub Action, Abstract, Video, Blog, Results
  • Liehrmann A, Rigaill G, Hocking TD (2021). Increased peak detection accuracy in over-dispersed ChIP-seq data with supervised segmentation models. BMC Bioinformatics 22(323). Publisher, Reproducible, Software

2020

  • Fotoohinasab A, Hocking T, Afghah F (2020). A Graph-Constrained Changepoint Learning Approach for Automatic QRS-Complex Detection. 2020 54th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers. Publisher, Abstract, Preprint
  • Fotoohinasab A, Hocking T, Afghah F (2020). A Graph-constrained Changepoint Detection Approach for ECG Segmentation. 2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine Biology Society (EMBC). Publisher
  • Hocking TD, Bourque G (2020). Machine Learning Algorithms for Simultaneous Supervised Detection of Peaks in Multiple Samples and Cell Types. Proc. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Publisher, Software, Preprint, Reproducible
  • Hocking TD, Rigaill G, Fearnhead P, Bourque G (2020). Constrained Dynamic Programming and Supervised Penalty Learning Algorithms for Peak Detection in Genomic Data. Journal of Machine Learning Research 21(87). Publisher, Preprint, Software, Reproducible

2019

  • Hocking TD (2019). Comparing namedCapture with other R packages for regular expressions. The R Journal 11(2). Publisher, Software, Reproducible
  • Jewell SW, Hocking TD, Fearnhead P, Witten DM (2019). Fast nonconvex deconvolution of calcium imaging data. Biostatistics 21(4). Pubmed
  • Sievert C, VanderPlas S, Cai J, Ferris K, Khan FUF, Hocking TD (2019). Extending ggplot2 for Linked and Animated Web Graphics. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 28(2). Publisher, Software, Reproducible, Interactive Figures

2018

  • Alirezaie N, Kernohan KD, Hartley T, Majewski J, Hocking TD (2018). ClinPred: Prediction Tool to Identify Disease-Relevant Nonsynonymous Single-Nucleotide Variants. The American Journal of Human Genetics 103(4). DOI, Software, used in dbNSFP
  • Depuydt P, Boeva V, Hocking TD, Cannoodt R, Ambros IM, Ambros PF, Asgharzadeh S, Attiyeh EF, Combaret Vé, Defferrari R, Fischer M, Hero B, Hogarty MD, Irwin MS, Koster J, Kreissman S, Ladenstein R, Lapouble E, Laureys Gè, London WB, Mazzocco K, Nakagawara A, Noguera R, Ohira M, Park JR, Pötschger U, Theissen J, Tonini GP, Valteau-Couanet D, Varesio L, Versteeg R, Speleman F, Maris JM, Schleiermacher G, Preter KD (2018). Genomic amplifications and distal 6q loss: novel markers for poor survival in high-risk neuroblastoma patients. JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute 110(10). Publisher
  • Depuydt P, Koster J, Boeva V, Hocking TD, Speleman F, Schleiermacher G, De Preter K (2018). Meta-mining of copy number profiles of high-risk neuroblastoma tumors. Scientific data 5(1). Publisher

2017

  • Drouin A, Hocking T, Laviolette F (2017). Maximum Margin Interval Trees. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30. Publisher, Software, Reproducible, Preprint, Video
  • Hocking TD, Goerner-Potvin P, Morin A, Shao X, Pastinen T, Bourque G (2017). Optimizing ChIP-seq peak detectors using visual labels and supervised machine learning. Bioinformatics 33(4). Pubmed, Software, Reproducible, Data
  • Maidstone R, Hocking T, Rigaill G, Fearnhead P (2017). On optimal multiple changepoint algorithms for large data. Statistics and Computing 27. Publisher, Software, Reproducible

2016

  • Chicard M, Boyault S, Colmet Daage L, Richer W, Gentien D, Pierron G, Lapouble E, Bellini A, Clement N, Iacono I, Bréjon Sé, Carrere M, Reyes Cé, Hocking T, Bernard V, Peuchmaur M, Corradini Nè, Faure-Conter Cé, Coze C, Plantaz D, Defachelles AS, Thebaud E, Gambart M, Millot Féé, Valteau-Couanet D, Michon J, Puisieux A, Delattre O, Combaret Vé, Schleiermacher G (2016). Genomic Copy Number Profiling Using Circulating Free Tumor DNA Highlights Heterogeneity in Neuroblastoma. Clinical Cancer Research 22(22). Publisher
  • Shimada K, Shimada S, Sugimoto K, Nakatochi M, Suguro M, Hirakawa A, Hocking TD, Takeuchi I, Tokunaga T, Takagi Y, Sakamoto A, Aoki T, Naoe T, Nakamura S, Hayakawa F, Seto M, Tomita A, Kiyoi H (2016). Development and analysis of patient-derived xenograft mouse models in intravascular large B-cell lymphoma. Leukemia 30(7). Pubmed

2015

  • Hocking TD, Rigaill G, Bourque G (2015). PeakSeg: constrained optimal segmentation and supervised penalty learning for peak detection in count data. Proc. 32nd ICML. Publisher, Video, Software, Reproducible

2014

  • Hocking TD, Boeva V, Rigaill G, Schleiermacher G, Janoueix-Lerosey I, Delattre O, Richer W, Bourdeaut F, Suguro M, Seto M, Bach F, Vert JP (2014). SegAnnDB: interactive Web-based genomic segmentation. Bioinformatics 30(11). Pubmed, Software, Reproducible, Preprint, Package, Reproducible
  • Suguro M, Yoshida N, Umino A, Kato H, Tagawa H, Nakagawa M, Fukuhara N, Karnan S, Takeuchi I, Hocking TD, Arita K, Karube K, Tsuzuki S, Nakamura S, Kinoshita T, Seto M (2014). Clonal heterogeneity of lymphoid malignancies correlates with poor prognosis. Cancer Sci 105(7). Pubmed

2013

  • Hocking TD, Schleiermacher G, Janoueix-Lerosey I, Boeva V, Cappo J, Delattre O, Bach F, Vert J-P (2013). Learning smoothing models of copy number profiles using breakpoint annotations. BMC Bioinformatics 14(164). Publisher, Software, Reproducible
  • Hocking TD, Wutzler T, Ponting K, Grosjean P (2013). Sustainable, Extensible Documentation Generation using inlinedocs. Journal of Statistical Software 54. Publisher, Software, Reproducible
  • Rigaill G, Hocking T, Vert J-P, Bach F (2013). Learning sparse penalties for change-point detection using max margin interval regression. Proc. 30th ICML. Publisher, Video, Software, Reproducible

2012

  • Hocking TD (2012). Learning algorithms and statistical software, with applications to bioinformatics. PHD thesis, Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan. Publisher, Reproducible

2011

2010

  • Gautier M, Hocking TD, Foulley J-L (2010). A Bayesian outlier criterion to detect SNPs under selection in large data sets. PLoS one 5(8). Publisher

2008

  • Doyon Y, McCammon JM, Miller JC, Faraji F, Ngo C, Katibah GE, Amora R, Hocking TD, Zhang L, Rebar EJ, Gregory PD, Urnov FD, Amacher SL (2008). Heritable targeted gene disruption in zebrafish using designed zinc-finger nucleases. Nature biotechnology 26(6). Pubmed NULL

Another output: markdown table with images

One advantage of this is that we can easily modify output formats.

for(large.png in Sys.glob("../assets/img/publications/*.png")){
  thumb.png <- file.path(
    dirname(large.png),
    "thumb",
    basename(large.png))
  if(!file.exists(thumb.png)){
    dir.create(dirname(thumb.png))
    convert.cmd <- paste("convert", large.png, "-scale 150", thumb.png)
    print(convert.cmd)
    system(convert.cmd)
  }
}
some.out <- abbrev.some[
, figure.png := sprintf("/assets/img/publications/thumb/%s.png", ref)
][, .(
  Figure=ifelse(
    file.exists(file.path("..", figure.png)),
    sprintf('<img src="%s" width="150" />', figure.png),
    ""),
  Published=heading,
  Authors=authors_abbrev,
  Title=title,
  Venue=venue,
  Links=ifelse(is.na(links), "", links)
)]
knitr::kable(some.out)
Figure Published Authors Title Venue Links
In progress Agyapong D, Chiquet J, Marks J, Hocking TD Identifying regimes where graphical models out-perform linear models for microbiome counts In Progress Reproducible
In progress Lindly O, Zuckerman K, Hocking TD, Folch DC, Sutherland V, Curry T Predict, Profile, Prioritize: Machine Learning Reveals Hidden Patterns in Autism Service Access Disparities Abstract submitted to INSAR 2026 conference Reproducible
In progress Agyapong D, Beatty BH, Kennedy PG, Marks JC, Hocking TD Fused Lasso Improves Accuracy of Co-occurrence Network Inference in Grouped Samples Preprint arXiv:2509.09413, under review at Computers in Biology and Medicine Reproducible, Software
In progress Amoakohene D, Chetia A, Steinmacher I, Hocking TD Asymptotic benchmarking using the atime package Under review at R Journal Reproducible, Software
In progress Hocking TD Comparing binsegRcpp with other implementations of binary segmentation for changepoint detection Under review at Journal of Statistical Software Preprint, Reproducible, Software
In progress Nguyen TL, Hocking TD Penalty Learning for Optimal Partitioning via Automatic Feature Extraction Preprint arXiv:2505.07413, under review at Computational Statistics Preprint, Reproducible
In progress Nguyen TL, Hocking TD Interval Regression: A Comparative Study with Proposed Models Preprint arXiv:2503.02011, under review at Statistics and Computing Preprint, Reproducible
In progress Oliveira P, Amoakohene D, Hocking TD, Gerosa M, Steinmacher I Governance Matters: Lessons from Restructuring the data.table OSS Project ICSME (International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution), Sep 2025 Abstract
In progress Sutherland V, Hocking TD, Folch DC, Underwood Carrasco VI, Zuckerman KE, Lindly OJ Autism Diagnostic Determinations of Primary Care Providers from 2013 to 2023 Under review at Academic Pediatrics Related poster Trends in Autism Diagnostic Determinations by Primary Care Providers Among U.S. Children from 2013 to 2023: Effects of Child Age, Race and Ethnicity, and Poverty Level was selected as one of the Top-Rated Abstracts at INSAR 2025 conference.
In progress Bodine CS, Thibault G, Arellano PN, Shenkin AF, Lindly O, Hocking TD SOAK: Same/Other/All K-fold cross-validation for estimating similarity of patterns in data subsets Preprint arXiv:2410.08643, under review at Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Preprint, Software, Reproducible
In progress Fowler J, Hocking TD Efficient line search for optimizing Area Under the ROC Curve in gradient descent Preprint arXiv:2410.08635, under review at Computational Intelligence Preprint, Talk announcement for JSM’23 Toronto, Video of talk at Université Laval July 2023, Slides PDF, source
In progress Hocking TD Finite Sample Complexity Analysis of Binary Segmentation Preprint arXiv:2410.08654, under review at Canadian Journal of Statistics Preprint, Reproducible, Software
In progress Hocking TD Teaching Hidden Markov Models Using Interactive Data Visualization In progress Reproducible, Slides
In progress Hocking TD mlr3resampling: an R implementation of cross-validation for comparing models learned using different train subsets In progress Software
In progress Thibault G, Morin-Bernard A, Sylvain J-D, Drolet G, Roussel J-R, Hocking TD, Achim A Spatial characterization of burn severity in a boreal forest using high-resolution satellite imagery Under review at International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation  
In progress Truong C, Hocking TD Efficient change-point detection for multivariate circular data In progress Reproducible, Software
In progress Hocking TD Why does functional pruning yield such fast algorithms for optimal changepoint detection? In progress Invited talk for TRIPODS seminar video, slides, IEEE NJACS, ASU West ML Day
In progress Rust KR, Hocking TD A Log-linear Gradient Descent Algorithm for Unbalanced Binary Classification using the All Pairs Squared Hinge Loss Preprint arXiv:2302.11062, under review at Journal of Machine Learning Research Preprint
In progress Hocking TD, Killick R Introduction to optimal changepoint detection algorithms Tutorial at international useR 2017 conference, textbook in progress Conference, Book, Reproducible
In progress Hocking TD, Ekstrøm CT Understanding and Creating Interactive Graphics Tutorial at international useR 2016 conference, textbook in progress Conference, Manual, Reproducible
In progress Hocking TD A breakpoint detection error function for segmentation model selection and validation Preprint arXiv:1509.00368 Preprint, Software, Reproducible
In progress Venuto D, Hocking TD, Sphanurattana L, Sugiyama M Support vector comparison machines Preprint arXiv:1401.8008 Preprint, Software, Reproducible
2025 Agyapong D, Propster JR, Marks J, Hocking TD Cross-Validation for Training and Testing Co-occurrence Network Inference Algorithms BMC Bioinformatics 26(74) Publisher, Preprint, Reproducible
2025 Nguyen TL, Hocking TD Penalty Learning for Optimal Partitioning using Multilayer Perceptron Statistics and Computing 35 Publisher, Preprint, Reproducible
2024 Bodine CS, Buscombe D, Hocking TD Automated River Substrate Mapping From Sonar Imagery With Machine Learning Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation 1(3) DOI, Preprint, Software
2024 Gurney KR, Aslam B, Dass P, Gawuc L, Hocking TD, Barber JJ, Kato A Assessment of the Climate Trace global powerplant CO2 emissions Environmental Research Letters 19(11) Publisher
2024 Kaufman JM, Stenberg AJ, Hocking TD Functional Labeled Optimal Partitioning Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 33(4) DOI, Preprint, Software, Reproducible, Preliminary code
2024 Tao F, Houlton BZ, Frey SD, Lehmann J, Manzoni S, Huang Y, Jiang L, Mishra U, Hungate BA, Schmidt MWI, Reichstein M, Carvalhais N, Ciais P, Wang Y-P, Ahrens B, Hugelius G, Hocking TD, Lu X, Shi Z, Viatkin K, Vargas R, Yigini Y, Omuto C, Malik AA, Peralta G, Cuevas-Corona R, Paolo LED, Luotto I, Liao C, Liang Y-S, Saynes VS, Huang X, Luo Y Reply to: Model uncertainty obscures major driver of soil carbon Nature 627(8002) Publisher, Preprint
2023 Harshe K, Williams JR, Hocking TD, Lerner ZF Predicting Neuromuscular Engagement to Improve Gait Training With a Robotic Ankle Exoskeleton IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 8(8) Publisher
2023 Hillman J, Hocking TD Optimizing ROC Curves with a Sort-Based Surrogate Loss for Binary Classification and Changepoint Detection Journal of Machine Learning Research 24(70) Publisher, Preprint, Software, Reproducible, Video
2023 Hocking TD, Srivastava A Labeled optimal partitioning Computational Statistics 38 Publisher, Preprint, Video, Software, Reproducible
2023 Runge V, Hocking TD, Romano G, Afghah F, Fearnhead P, Rigaill G gfpop: An R Package for Univariate Graph-Constrained Change-Point Detection Journal of Statistical Software 106(6) Publisher, Preprint, Software, GUI, Reproducible
2023 Sweeney N, Xu C, Shaw JA, Hocking TD, Whitaker BM Insect Identification in Pulsed Lidar Images Using Changepoint Detection Algorithms 2023 Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC) Publisher
2023 Tao F, Huang Y, Hungate BA, Manzoni S, Frey SD, Schmidt MWI, Reichstein M, Carvalhais N, Ciais P, Jiang L, Lehmann J, Mishra U, Hugelius G, Hocking TD, Lu X, Shi Z, Viatkin K, Vargas R, Yigini Y, Omuto C, Malik AA, Perualta G, Cuevas-Corona R, Paolo LED, Luotto I, Liao C, Liang Y-S, Saynes VS, Huang X, Luo Y Microbial carbon use efficiency promotes global soil carbon storage Nature 618 Publisher
2022 Barnwal A, Cho H, Hocking T Survival Regression with Accelerated Failure Time Model in XGBoost Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 31(4) Publisher, Preprint, Software, Documentation, Video, Reproducible
2022 Barr JR, Hocking TD, Morton G, Thatcher T, Shaw P Classifying Imbalanced Data with AUM Loss 2022 Fourth International Conference on Transdisciplinary AI (TransAI) Publisher
2022 Barr JR, Shaw P, Abu-Khzam FN, Thatcher T, Hocking TD Graph embedding: A methodological survey 2022 fourth international conference on transdisciplinary AI (TransAI) Publisher
2022 Chaves AP, Egbert J, Hocking T, Doerry E, Gerosa MA Chatbots Language Design: The Influence of Language Variation on User Experience with Tourist Assistant Chatbots ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 29(2) Publisher, Preprint
2022 Hocking TD Introduction to machine learning and neural networks Chapter in Land Carbon Cycle Modeling: Matrix Approach, Data Assimilation, and Ecological Forecasting, edited by Yiqi Luo, published by CRC Press Publisher, My chapter, Reproducible, Video
2022 Hocking TD, Barr JR, Thatcher T Interpretable linear models for predicting security vulnerabilities in source code 2022 Fourth International Conference on Transdisciplinary AI (TransAI) Publisher
2022 Hocking TD, Rigaill G, Fearnhead P, Bourque G Generalized Functional Pruning Optimal Partitioning (GFPOP) for Constrained Changepoint Detection in Genomic Data Journal of Statistical Software 101(10) Publisher, Software, Reproducible, Slides, Video
2022 Mihaljevic JR, Borkovec S, Ratnavale S, Hocking TD, Banister KE, Eppinger JE, Hepp C, Doerry E SPARSEMODr: Rapidly simulate spatially explicit and stochastic models of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases Biology Methods and Protocols 7(1) Publisher, Preprint, Software
2022 Vargovich J, Hocking TD Linear time dynamic programming for computing breakpoints in the regularization path of models selected from a finite set Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 31(2) Publisher, Preprint, Software, Reproducible
2021 Abraham AJ, Prys-Jones TO, De Cuyper A, Ridenour C, Hempson GP, Hocking T, Clauss M, Doughty CE Improved estimation of gut passage time considerably affects trait-based dispersal models Functional Ecology 35(4) Publisher
2021 Fotoohinasab A, Hocking T, Afghah F A greedy graph search algorithm based on changepoint analysis for automatic QRS complex detection Computers in Biology and Medicine 130 Publisher, Preprint
2021 Hocking TD Wide-to-tall Data Reshaping Using Regular Expressions and the nc Package The R Journal 13(1) Publisher, Software, Reproducible
2021 Kolla AC, Groce A, Hocking TD Fuzz Testing the Compiled Code in R Packages 2021 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) Publisher, Software, GitHub Action, Abstract, Video, Blog, Results
2021 Liehrmann A, Rigaill G, Hocking TD Increased peak detection accuracy in over-dispersed ChIP-seq data with supervised segmentation models BMC Bioinformatics 22(323) Publisher, Reproducible, Software
2020 Fotoohinasab A, Hocking T, Afghah F A Graph-Constrained Changepoint Learning Approach for Automatic QRS-Complex Detection 2020 54th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers Publisher, Abstract, Preprint
2020 Fotoohinasab A, Hocking T, Afghah F A Graph-constrained Changepoint Detection Approach for ECG Segmentation 2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine Biology Society (EMBC) Publisher
2020 Hocking TD, Bourque G Machine Learning Algorithms for Simultaneous Supervised Detection of Peaks in Multiple Samples and Cell Types Proc. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing Publisher, Software, Preprint, Reproducible
2020 Hocking TD, Rigaill G, Fearnhead P, Bourque G Constrained Dynamic Programming and Supervised Penalty Learning Algorithms for Peak Detection in Genomic Data Journal of Machine Learning Research 21(87) Publisher, Preprint, Software, Reproducible
2019 Hocking TD Comparing namedCapture with other R packages for regular expressions The R Journal 11(2) Publisher, Software, Reproducible
2019 Jewell SW, Hocking TD, Fearnhead P, Witten DM Fast nonconvex deconvolution of calcium imaging data Biostatistics 21(4) Pubmed
2019 Sievert C, VanderPlas S, Cai J, Ferris K, Khan FUF, Hocking TD Extending ggplot2 for Linked and Animated Web Graphics Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 28(2) Publisher, Software, Reproducible, Interactive Figures
2018 Alirezaie N, Kernohan KD, Hartley T, Majewski J, Hocking TD ClinPred: Prediction Tool to Identify Disease-Relevant Nonsynonymous Single-Nucleotide Variants The American Journal of Human Genetics 103(4) DOI, Software, used in dbNSFP
2018 Depuydt P, Boeva V, Hocking TD, Cannoodt R, Ambros IM, Ambros PF, Asgharzadeh S, Attiyeh EF, Combaret Vé, Defferrari R, Fischer M, Hero B, Hogarty MD, Irwin MS, Koster J, Kreissman S, Ladenstein R, Lapouble E, Laureys Gè, London WB, Mazzocco K, Nakagawara A, Noguera R, Ohira M, Park JR, Pötschger U, Theissen J, Tonini GP, Valteau-Couanet D, Varesio L, Versteeg R, Speleman F, Maris JM, Schleiermacher G, Preter KD Genomic amplifications and distal 6q loss: novel markers for poor survival in high-risk neuroblastoma patients JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute 110(10) Publisher
2018 Depuydt P, Koster J, Boeva V, Hocking TD, Speleman F, Schleiermacher G, De Preter K Meta-mining of copy number profiles of high-risk neuroblastoma tumors Scientific data 5(1) Publisher
2017 Drouin A, Hocking T, Laviolette F Maximum Margin Interval Trees Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30 Publisher, Software, Reproducible, Preprint, Video
2017 Hocking TD, Goerner-Potvin P, Morin A, Shao X, Pastinen T, Bourque G Optimizing ChIP-seq peak detectors using visual labels and supervised machine learning Bioinformatics 33(4) Pubmed, Software, Reproducible, Data
2017 Maidstone R, Hocking T, Rigaill G, Fearnhead P On optimal multiple changepoint algorithms for large data Statistics and Computing 27 Publisher, Software, Reproducible
2016 Chicard M, Boyault S, Colmet Daage L, Richer W, Gentien D, Pierron G, Lapouble E, Bellini A, Clement N, Iacono I, Bréjon Sé, Carrere M, Reyes Cé, Hocking T, Bernard V, Peuchmaur M, Corradini Nè, Faure-Conter Cé, Coze C, Plantaz D, Defachelles AS, Thebaud E, Gambart M, Millot Féé, Valteau-Couanet D, Michon J, Puisieux A, Delattre O, Combaret Vé, Schleiermacher G Genomic Copy Number Profiling Using Circulating Free Tumor DNA Highlights Heterogeneity in Neuroblastoma Clinical Cancer Research 22(22) Publisher
2016 Shimada K, Shimada S, Sugimoto K, Nakatochi M, Suguro M, Hirakawa A, Hocking TD, Takeuchi I, Tokunaga T, Takagi Y, Sakamoto A, Aoki T, Naoe T, Nakamura S, Hayakawa F, Seto M, Tomita A, Kiyoi H Development and analysis of patient-derived xenograft mouse models in intravascular large B-cell lymphoma Leukemia 30(7) Pubmed
2015 Hocking TD, Rigaill G, Bourque G PeakSeg: constrained optimal segmentation and supervised penalty learning for peak detection in count data Proc. 32nd ICML Publisher, Video, Software, Reproducible
2014 Hocking TD, Boeva V, Rigaill G, Schleiermacher G, Janoueix-Lerosey I, Delattre O, Richer W, Bourdeaut F, Suguro M, Seto M, Bach F, Vert JP SegAnnDB: interactive Web-based genomic segmentation Bioinformatics 30(11) Pubmed, Software, Reproducible, Preprint, Package, Reproducible
2014 Suguro M, Yoshida N, Umino A, Kato H, Tagawa H, Nakagawa M, Fukuhara N, Karnan S, Takeuchi I, Hocking TD, Arita K, Karube K, Tsuzuki S, Nakamura S, Kinoshita T, Seto M Clonal heterogeneity of lymphoid malignancies correlates with poor prognosis Cancer Sci 105(7) Pubmed
2013 Hocking TD, Schleiermacher G, Janoueix-Lerosey I, Boeva V, Cappo J, Delattre O, Bach F, Vert J-P Learning smoothing models of copy number profiles using breakpoint annotations BMC Bioinformatics 14(164) Publisher, Software, Reproducible
2013 Hocking TD, Wutzler T, Ponting K, Grosjean P Sustainable, Extensible Documentation Generation using inlinedocs Journal of Statistical Software 54 Publisher, Software, Reproducible
2013 Rigaill G, Hocking T, Vert J-P, Bach F Learning sparse penalties for change-point detection using max margin interval regression Proc. 30th ICML Publisher, Video, Software, Reproducible
2012 Hocking TD Learning algorithms and statistical software, with applications to bioinformatics PHD thesis, Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan Publisher, Reproducible
2011 Hocking TD, Joulin A, Bach F, Vert J-P Clusterpath an algorithm for clustering using convex fusion penalties 28th international conference on machine learning Publisher, Video, Software, Reproducible, Cited in Ihaka lecture
2010 Gautier M, Hocking TD, Foulley J-L A Bayesian outlier criterion to detect SNPs under selection in large data sets PLoS one 5(8) Publisher
2008 Doyon Y, McCammon JM, Miller JC, Faraji F, Ngo C, Katibah GE, Amora R, Hocking TD, Zhang L, Rebar EJ, Gregory PD, Urnov FD, Amacher SL Heritable targeted gene disruption in zebrafish using designed zinc-finger nucleases Nature biotechnology 26(6) Pubmed

The output above is a table with one row per publication, and an image column that shows a figure from the paper. The trick to getting that to display, is putting it in this repo, with a standard name, based on the bib file key.

The code below checks for missing figures.

some.out[Figure=='', Title]

## character(0)

Make sure pdflatex likes it

This part only works in Rmd, not md/jekyll for some reason.

Report mis-match between image files and refs

img.dt <- data.table(ref=sub(".png", "", dir("../assets/img/publications/")))
img.dt[!refs.wide,on="ref"] #images without bib entries

##       ref
##    <char>
## 1:  thumb

refs.wide[!img.dt,.(ref),on="ref"] #bib entries without images

## Empty data.table (0 rows and 1 cols): ref

Conclusion

We have seen how a bib file can be used to define a publications web page.

  • bib file contains peer-reviewed, published papers as article (for journals) and inproceedings (for conferences),
  • incollection is used for book chapters,
  • phdthesis is used for PHD thesis,

unpublished is used for papers in progress (not yet published), meaning one or more of below:

  • conference tutorial, note should include which conference; links should include conference page, book/manual page, and github source.
  • paper not yet submitted for review (note=In progress),
  • Pre-print available, put in note and links.
  • If under review or accepted, put venue in note.

Because bibtex ignores fields like links which are not part of standard bibliography types, we can put markdown code in there, and then put it into our markdown pubs page.

Session info

sessionInfo()

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## Running under: Windows 11 x64 (build 26100)
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##   LAPACK version 3.12.1
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## 
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## tzcode source: internal
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## [1] stats     graphics  utils     datasets  grDevices methods   base     
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## loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
## [1] compiler_4.5.2 nc_2025.3.24   tools_4.5.2    knitr_1.50     xfun_0.54      evaluate_1.0.5