Scientist, Bioinformatics Resume
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Cambridge, MA
CAREER SUMMARY:
- Result - driven bioinformatics leader with unique combination of impactful achievements in industry
- The author of 59 scientific publications and 43 issued patents with h-index of 26 and i10-index of 39.
- Created popular bioinformatics tools for protein structure comparison (SARF, SARF2) and prediction (123D, 123D+), motif finding (Motifer), gene prediction and a portal SNP-Seek for allele mining.
- Experience in managing bioinformatics teams, hands-on skills using and developing bioinformatics tools and databases.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Scientist, Bioinformatics
Confidential, Cambridge, MA
Responsibilities:
- Built a prototype system of gene nomination for trait improvement in crops
- Enhanced Inari Scientific Advisory Board with bioinformatics expertise
Sr. Scientist, Bioinformatics
Confidential, Los Banos, Philippines
Responsibilities:
- Led a group of computational scientists, bioinformatics analysts and programmers
- Provided bioinformatics support for the institute
- Organized various biological data, including more than three thousand rice genome sequences, genotyping and phenotyping data
- Built pipelines of NGS analysis, benchmarked available software and developed new algorithms for solving biological problems
Manager of Computational Biology
Confidential, Thousand Oaks, CA
Responsibilities:
- Next Generation Sequencing pipeline for DNA marker discovery
- EST/cDNA/Protein sequence clustering system
- Gene prediction
- Protein annotation pipeline
- Expression data analysis pipeline
- Promoter sequence analysis
Computational Scientist
Confidential, Thousand Oaks, CA
Responsibilities:
- Designed a benchmark to assess quality of methods of finding distant homologs
- Integrated threading program 123D into the pipeline of EST sequence analysis
- Developed algorithms to parse protein domains
- Proposed a new method for sequence alignment
- Elaborated novel statistics for sequence comparison
- Made presentations at the conferences, seminars, meetings
Visiting Fellow
Confidential, MD
Responsibilities:
- Developed a new program for protein structure comparison SARF2
- Developed a program 123D for protein fold recognition
Postdoctoral Fellow
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Search for the most suitable proteins for protein engineering experiments
- Linked statistical characteristics of protein 3D structures with kinetics of protein folding
Postdoctoral Fellow
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Developed an algorithm for protein structure comparison SARF
- Investigated biological role of common structural motifs in proteins
Junior Researcher
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Implemented “Generalized Portrait” algorithm (a prototype of the Support Vector Machine) for promoter recognition in E.coli.
- Developed a new statistical method for rapid comparison of DNA sequences.
- Integrated these programs into the package for DNA sequence analysis DNA-SUN