Michael Ito

Program Year:

University:

University of Michigan

Field of Study:

Computer Science

Advisor:

Jenna Wiens

Degree(s):

B.S. Information and Computer Science, and B.S. Mathematics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2022

Personal URL:

https://michaelito03.wixsite.com/mysite

Practicum Experience(s)

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2024)

Practicum Supervisor(s):

Jay

Thiagarajan

Practicum Title:

Protective host Targeted Engineered CRISPR-Cas Therapeutics (PROTECT)

Summary of Research

I am a Computer Science PhD student at the University of Michigan advised by Dr. Jenna Wiens. My research lies at the intersection of machine learning and healthcare. Currently, I work on Graph Representation Learning and its applications to health and biomedicine. In the past, I've worked on Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Physics-Informed Neural Networks, and Equivariant Deep Learning.

Annual Program Review Abstracts

Learning Laplacian Positional Encodings for Heterophilous Graphs (2024)

Beyond Static Graphs: Understanding Graph Neural Networks and Homophily in Dynamic Node Classification (2023)

Publications

M. Ito, J. Zhu, D. Chen, D. Koutra, and J. Wiens. Learning Laplacian Positional Enocdings for Heterophilous Graphs International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2025

M. Ito, D. Koutra, and J. Wiens. Understanding Graph Neural Networks and Homophily in Dynamic Node Classification. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2025

M. Ito, I. Cunnyngham, X. Sun, and P. Sadowski. Group Equivariant Neural Networks for Spectropolarimetric Inversions in Solar Astronomy. ICLR AI4Earth Worksop, 2022

Ito, Michael, Yannik Glaser, and Peter Sadowski. "Evolution-Informed Neural Networks for Microbiome Data Analysis." In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), pp. 3386-3391. IEEE, 2021.

M. Ito, C. Karamperidou, P. Sadowski, S. Carmargo, C. Lee, and C. Patricola. Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Insights into the Relationship between ENSO and Tropical Cyclone Genesis. American Geophysical Union, 2021

M. Ito, J. Nyugen, K. Lactaoean, M. Yoshizawa. Autism-like behaviors are likely to be regulated by distinct genetic factors in the Mexican cavefish. The Allied Genetics Conference, 2020