Cameron Nugent Email & Phone Number

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Bioinformatics: Created custom data analysis pipelines for processing whole genome re-sequencing data for over 900 samples. The pipeline allocated available resources to facilitate efficient, parallelized computation.
• Machine Learning: Used supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms to leverage molecular markers and environmental variables to: characterize the structure of wild populations, determine the relationship.
• Data science and software engineering: Designed custom programs to clean, visualize, and statistically analyze large datasets in the programming languages Python, R, and C++.
• Cloud-based big data analysis: Made scientific discoveries through the management and analysis of terabytes of data on remote access computing clusters. Use of Microsoft Azure cloud computing environment and resources..
• Software and data management: Use of Git and GitHub for version control and software management to share code across team members and environments while ensuring repeatability.

Remote

• Image Classification: Design, testing, and deployment of quality control algorithm for selection of high-quality image data for subsequent biological predictions. Design involved extraction of a variety of image.
• Time Series Analysis: Designed an image-based time series flow detection algorithm capable of identifying when milk was flowing through sensors with high accuracy.
• Statistics and Data Visualization: Developed statistical tests to validate performance of a variety machine learning models and facilitate the biological interpretation of results.
• Software development: Packaged machine learning models into Python libraries for deployment on company's sensors. Maintained, documented, and improved package code over time using Git for version control.
• Communication: Responsible for communicating results to other teams and external collaborators through data presentations and reports.

Guelph, Ontario

• Machine Learning: Designed an alignment-free taxonomic classifier for DNA sequence data (Python). The program uses a custom Python class to extract features from DNA sequence fragments of unidentified origin and assign.
• Statistics and Software Design: Developed novel R software packages that utilize profile hidden Markov models to classify and correct errors in high throughput DNA sequence data. These packages, coil and debar have.
• Communication and Teaching: Authored scientific publications to communicate research findings to a wide audience. Lead tutorials where I teach programming and statistics techniques to graduate students and faculty.

Guelph, Ontario

• Bioinformatics and Data Science: Created and utilized custom Python, R, and Go programs, mySQL queries, and shell scripts in cloud computing environments to conduct bioinformatics research on the Arctic charr genome..
• Statistics: Used linear mixed effects models and additional statistical methods to conduct genome wide association studies and determine the genetic basis of length and weight in farmed Arctic charr populations.
• Use of supervised machine learning algorithms to predict the weight and length of Arctic charr based on thousands of genetic variants.
• Communication of findings to colleagues and the public through scientific publications and conference presentations.

Guelph Ontario

• Courses I taught: Biostatistics, Genomics, Marine and Freshwater Research, Evolution, Discovering Biodiversity, Introduction to Biology
• Ran hands-on R programming tutorials, lead lab and seminar sessions, ran exam review sessions, wrote weekly quizzes, provided feedback on experimental design and led field excursions with students.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Bioinformatics

Thesis title: The Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) genome: An analysis of evolutionary change after whole genome duplication

Bachelors Of Science Honours, Evolutionary Biology