PhD in Physics & Biochemistry with 10 years experience creating models of biological systems and running simulations.
Developed and applied novel network-based models of proteins to quantitatively characterize function in terms of their structures (QSAR).
Created coarse-grained, multi-scale models of proteins, RNA and DNA, drawing on polymer physics and classical mechanics to develop effective force fields.
Performed molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo, atomistic and coarse-grained simulations of systems containing hundreds of thousands of components representing over one million atoms.
Identified the role of structural flexibility and motion in the context of ligand binding, conformational changes and thermodynamics.
Routinely generated and distilled gigabytes of data from simulations into meaningful trends and physical insights about the system using statistics (PCA, support vector machines, clustering, t-tests, etc. ).
Constructed and queried large databases containing hundreds of thousands of relationships of genomics and proteomics data.
Performed bioinformatics analysis of protein, DNA and RNA structures and sequences (searches, alignment, homology modeling, etc. ) identifying common features and mechanisms.
Inferred stability trends in homologous thermophile-mesophile pairs. Simulated amino acid mutations and calculated their effect on thermodynamic parameters.
Experienced in various laboratory techniques including vacuum chambers, chemical vapor deposition, photolithography and spectroscopy.
Co-author of 25 scientific articles and 2 book chapters. Presented work at more than 20 local, national and international conferences.
Highly adaptable software user experienced in numerous software for simulation and visualization of biomolecules such as VMD, PyMOL, MODELLER, Rosetta, Amber, BioPerl and Gromacs as well as those for mathematical and statistical analysis of data such as Matlab, and R.
Fluent in many programming languages including C/C++, FORTRAN77, SQL, perl, python and bash.
Developed source code and web-server interfaces for two coarse-grained biomolecular simulation methods.
Set-up and administered small (8 node) linux computer cluster and ran simulations on larger (512 node) HPC cluster.
Experienced user in linux/UNIX and Windows operating systems along with most Microsoft and Adobe software.

Delegated pieces of research projects to different team members and synthesized these independent results into a meaningful product.
Set deadlines and worked on multiple projects simultaneously. Made hiring and purchasing decisions.
Worked on many collaborative, team projects with researchers from many different backgrounds in both support and supervisory roles.