Research

Statistics

  • Ethan Ancell, Daniela Witten, Daniel Kessler (2025) Post-selection inference with a single realization of a network. arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.11843 [link to paper] [software]

Neuroscience Collaborations

  • Mi-Seon Kong, Ethan Ancell, Daniela Witten, Larry Zweifel (2025) Valence and salience encoding in the central amygdala. eLife, 13, RP101980 [link to paper]
  • Adam Gordon-Fennell, Barbara Benowitz, Joumana Barbakh, Isabella Montequin, Anthony Campuzano, Hannah P Stevenson, Elena Lu, Madelyn Hjort, Ethan Ancell, Madalyn Critz, Daniela Witten, Garret Stuber (2025) Lateral Hypothalamic Glutamate and GABA Neurons Cooperatively Shape Striatum-Wide Dopamine Dynamics During Consumption. bioRxiv, 2025-04. [link to paper]

Technical Reports

  • Ethan Ancell, Christopher Bennett, Bert Debusschere, Sapan Agarwal, Park Hays, T Patrick Xiao (2022) An out-of-distribution discriminator based on Bayesian neural network epistemic uncertainty. arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.10780 [link to paper] (Project completed as an undergraduate research intern at Sandia National Laboratories)
  • Ethan Ancell, Brennan Bean (2021) Autocart–spatially-aware regression trees for ecological and spatial modeling. arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.08258 [link to paper] (An undergraduate research project funded by the Utah State University Peak Research Fellowship)