Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
I am currently a Research Assistant for Professor Maral Aminpour, a new Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Alberta. I'm working with her to write grant proposals and prepare course materials. I'm looking forward to working with her to develop open-source software tools for studying protein interactions at a molecular level. Previously, for more than 13 years I worked with Professor Jack Tuszynski in his lab at the University of Alberta. His lab was focused on using computational methods to study biological processes using physics-based molecular modelling methods, primarily to research new cancer drugs, but also for other health applications, including the study of neurodegenerative diseases. I was a contributing author on 19 papers published by this lab. My job included a wide variety of activities, including: (1) System administration for our high-performance computing cluster. (2) Writing Python scripts for data analysis. (3) Developing databases and web servers. (4) Writing papers and grant proposals. (5) Lab management tasks such as setting up meetings and purchasing supplies. Before that, I worked as a programmer on Project CyberCell, which was a research project to create a computer simulation of a bacterial cell. I ported simulation source code from MATLAB to C, and implemented a parallel version, which resulted in a 100-fold performance improvement. I was a contributing author on two papers about this research.
I am a Research Assistant for Professor Maral Aminpour in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Alberta. I am currently working with Prof. Aminpour on writing grant proposals and preparing course materials. I'm planning to work on developing open-source software tools for studying protein interactions at a molecular level.
I worked for Professor Jack Tuszynski in the Department of Oncology and the Department of Physics at the University. My work included system administration for a high-performance computing cluster, writing Python scripts for data analysis, developing databases and web servers, writing papers and grant proposals, and lab management tasks. I was a contributing author on 19 publications.
I worked as a programmer on Project CyberCell, which was a research project to create a computer simulation of a bacterial cell. I ported simulation source code from MATLAB to C, and implemented a parallel version, which resulted in a 100-fold performance improvement. I was a contributing author on two papers about this research.