PhD - Software Engineering
The University of Texas at Dallas - 2019
Professional Preparation
Masters - Software Engineering
The University of Texas at Dallas - 2016
The University of Texas at Dallas - 2016
Bachelors - Biology
The University of Texas at Dallas - 2014
The University of Texas at Dallas - 2014
Research Areas
Research Interests
Bioinformatics and computational biology, integrating software engineering and computational methods with biological expertise for data analysis, mining, curation, and visualization of biological datasets, NGS analysis (RNA-seq & ATAC-seq), cancer genomics, machine learning, and big data analyticsPublications
FEAR antiviral response pathway is independent of interferons and countered by poxvirus proteins 2024 - publication
Metabolic reprogramming tips vaccinia virus infection outcomes by stabilizing interferon-γ induced IRF1 2023 - publication
A FACT-ETS-I Antiviral Responses Pathway Restricts Viral Replication and is Countered by Poxvirus A5 I R Proteins 2023 - publication
Using Mothur to Determine Bacterial Community Composition and Structure in 16S Ribosomal RNA Datasets 2019 - publication
Awards
• American Society of Virology Travel Grant - [2019]
• Grace Hopper Celebrations Scholarship - [2018]
• 2016 Recipient of UT Dallas scholarship to attend GHC'16 - [2016]
• Student TravelGrant for 2016 CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop - [2016]
• 2015 Recipient of UT Dallas scholarship to attend GHC'15 - [2016]
• Spring 2013 Dean’s student list at the University of Texas at Dallas - [2013]
• Fall 2012 Dean’s student list at the University of Texas at Dallas - [2012]
• Recipient of one of 5 HI-TECCC scholarship and Academic Excellence - [2011]
• Scholarship and Phi Theta Kappa Transfer student scholarship - [2010]
• Spring 2010 Dean’s student list at Collin College - [2010]
Projects
Labor Market Visualization for Alliance Data
Designed and delivered software application that helps Company Alliance Data to visualize the hot and cold spots in the American Labor Market using data sourced monthly from the US governmentWeb Programming Languages
Designed and implemented the Library Web Application System developed using PHP, JQuery, HTML, CSS, and AJAXAdvanced Requirement Engineering
Designed and developed H.O.P.E (Helping Our People Easily) Application developed using Android SDK to provide a platform for helping the elderly and people with disabilitiesObject-Oriented Software Engineering
Designed and implemented Restaurant Automation System developed using Object Oriented Analysis, Object Oriented Tools, IBM rational rhapsody, Implemented Java GUIDatabase Design
Designed, implemented, and tested a graduate school database. The project consisted of four parts: conceptual database design, logical database design, Oracle relational database implementation using SQLPresentations
American Society for Virology Annual Meeting - 2022
Through the looking glass: A computational and experimental framework to discover cellular functions using viral doppelgängersUT Southwestern Immunology Symposium (Poster Presentation) - 2021
Virolog: A computational and experimental framework exploiting the landscape of viral mimicry to discover host defensesAmerican Society for Virology Annual Meeting - 2019
Mimicry drives the landscape of viral proteins that target mitochondrial functionsUT Southwestern Immunology Symposium Poster Presentation) - 2019
Mimicry drives the landscape of viral proteins that target mitochondrial functionsUT Southwestern Immunology Symposium - 2018
Viral Genomic Analysis to Uncover Cellular FunctionsAdditional Information
Teaching and Mentoring
The University of Texas at Dallas, Computer Science Department- Assistant Professor of Instruction (2024 - Present)
- Data Structures and Introduction to Algorithmic Analysis (CS/SE/CE 3345)
- Introduction to programming (CS/SE/CE 1325)
- Computer Science II(CS 2336)
- Software Engineering (CS/SE/CE 3354
- Lecturer I (part-time) (August 2019 - December 2021)
- Data Structures and Introduction to Algorithmic Analysis (CS/SE/CE 3345)
- Computer Science II (CS/SE/CE 3345)
Research Mentor: Neha A Jayarajan & Avery Gordon (2022)
- Bioinformatics Analysis to use viral smallORFs to guide and functionally characterize novel cellular micropeptide
- Bioinformatics Analysis for Codon Distribution
- Development of Data Resource for Viral Genomics
- Bioinformatic Applications and Pipeline Development
- Computer Science Senior Design Project – Genomic Variant Analysis Pipeline
- Database and Web Browser Development based on Viral Genomic and Proteomic Data
- Peer-Tutor, Biochemistry I and Biochemistry II (Fall 2013)
- Peer-Tutor, Biochemistry I, Biochemistry II and Molecular Cell (Spring/Summer 2014)
- Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Biology Laboratory (BIOL 2281) (Fall 2013-Spring 2014)
Technical Skills
- DATABASE: Oracle, MySQL, Data Modeling
- DESIGN: Flash, OOA/OOD/OOP
- LANGUAGES/TOOLS: Java, C++, HTML, CSS, Python, R language, JavaScript, JQuery, PHP, Ruby on Rails, JSP, JPA, EJB, JDBC, SQL, UML, GUI, JSON, XML, RESTful web services, AJAX
- Bioinformatic Tools: Bowtie2, BEDtools, IGV, SAMTools, DAVID, BLAST, Bioconductor, UCSC Genome Browser
Certifications and Credits
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Department of Bioinformatics Nanocourse Certifications:
- Python for Software Development (2023)
- Advanced NGS Analysis I & II (2022)
- Accessing Public Data (2020)
- Computational Image Analysis (2018)
- Machine Learning I (2018)
- Genomics Analysis: Genetic Variation (2018)
- University of Texas at Dallas CS Outreach
- Data Science with Python (2018)
- ML and TensorFlow workshop (2017)
- Google Applied CS workshop (2016)
- Big Data Club I (2016)
- Data Analysis & Machine Learning with R (2016)