Developed custom python codes using NumPy, Pandas, SciPy for characterizing structural and dynamical changes of enzymes implicated in their biological functionApplied statistical coupling analysis to identify networks of amino acid residues that control distinct biochemical functionsApplied independent component analysis to characterize conformational substates important for enzyme catalysis.

Developed HikeEasy, a hiking trail recommendation system presented as a web app. Recommendations are suggested based on analyses of text, categorical and numerical features of hiking trails. I used scikit-learn CountVectorizer and TfidfVectorizer for natural language processing of trail features, and gensim keyword extraction from user reviews for trails, StandardScaler and LabelBinarizer for pre-processing numerical and categorical data, respectively, and Cosine similarity, and Euclidean… Show more Developed HikeEasy, a hiking trail recommendation system presented as a web app. Recommendations are suggested based on analyses of text, categorical and numerical features of hiking trails. I used scikit-learn CountVectorizer and TfidfVectorizer for natural language processing of trail features, and gensim keyword extraction from user reviews for trails, StandardScaler and LabelBinarizer for pre-processing numerical and categorical data, respectively, and Cosine similarity, and Euclidean distance metrics as similarity measures. Show less

Developed scientific and grant writing skills of graduate and postdoctoral researchers by facilitating effective peer review through group discussions.Facilitated peer critiquing where students provide constructive criticism to help improve their peer's scientific writing skills.

Investigated the free energy landscape of minipeptides and identified the driving forces for the formation of alpha-helix and beta-sheet secondary structural conformations.Developed custom python scripts to characterize the free energy landscape for transitions between secondary structures associated with neurodegenerative diseases.

Developed custom analyses codes in Python, Perl and Mathematica to identify structural characteristics of alpha-synuclein, a protein implicated in Parkinson’s disease.Performed hierarchical clustering (custom Python script) of molecular simulation structures to identify structural changes associated with disease states.

Bioinformatics analyses of Mycobacterium leprae genome using custom codes written in C++.Homology modeling of the mutant of γ-crystallin causing self-aggregation leading to congenital cataract.