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PhD Student in Genomics & Computational Biology

Masters - Computer and Information Technology

MBA

• MBA focusing in Project Management and Data Analytics

Bachelors of Arts - Cognitive Science

Research Assistant

• PI - Noam Auslander
• Research Projects
  • Deployed a bioconda package that quantifies Human Endogenous Retrovirus (HERV) short read RNA sequencing expression data and constructs a phylogenetic tree using LCA
  • Developed exploratory KNN and bagging regressor models to associate melanoma mutations with expression-based gain of function and loss of function from AlphaMissense structural embeddings
  • Plotted survival curves and calculating hazard ratios for ER+ ovarian cancer patients and feature selecting gene signatures using genetic algorithm
  • Assisted with analysis on HLA serotypes and sequencing data to provide insight into mechanistic support for protein association using netMHCpan I/II

Summer Research Intern

• Summer Project
  • Pretrained and finetuned BERT language model for domain specificity on clinical case notes and biomedical literature to capture patient representation
  • Conducted independent quantitative experiments on downstream language model tasks to compare baseline model with domain specific model
  • Assisted in implementing data preprocessing methods for various datasets and statistical methodologies for inference in collaboration with preceptor and principal investigator
• Career Development
  • Attended and actively discussed journal club papers to keep up to date with NLP literature
  • Attended resilience and presentation practice sessions for personal development

Senior/Mid-Level/Associate Software Engineer

• Projects
  • Worked on an end to end file tracker using Python, React, and MongoDB to help locate and remediate errors for inbound/outbound files
  • Maintained production instance of Apache Airflow throughout 2020- 2021 to automate the scheduling of our production and non-production pipelines, consisting of over 80,000 jobs written as Windows batch, Linux shell scripts, and IBM Mainframe JCL
• Management and mentorship for development programs and junior engineers
  • Led 4 years of summer interns on different projects to create MVPs for internal process improvement
  • Interviewed over 25 junior software engineer candidates for our new grad trainee program
  • Mentored and evaluated performance of over 30 junior engineers in total over 4 years on projects with day-to-day correspondence

Metadata Analyst

• Earned Top Secret/Sensitive information security clearance by passing a polygraph while attending school as a full-time employee
• Performed advanced theoretical analysis at a research level, including analysis on a wide variety of raw traffic to query database results effectively

• Fontaine Scholar

• Stokes Educational Scholarship
• Regent's and Chancellor's Scholarship