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Hinxton, England, United Kingdom

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Providing bioinformatics expertise and services to staff, students, and external partners, as part of the Bioinformatics Support Unit: - RNA-Seq analysis (differential gene expression and alternative splicing) - Whole exome sequencing analysis - Somatic and germline variant calling - Bioinformatics workflow development - Bacterial genome assemblyInformatics analyst on the NIHR-funded AI-MULTIPLY project (https://ai-multiply.co.uk/) for the development of clinically valuable machine learning (ML) applications: - Data engineering of longitudinal electronic health records of patients with multiple long-term conditions from the UK Biobank knowledgebase - Training and optimisation of machine learning predictors varying from classical paradigms (random forests/gradient boosting) to deep-learning (neural networks) - Communicating progress, results, and feedback to collaborators of diverse professional backgrounds

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Part-time demonstrator for Master's level practical sessions in the School of Computing during PhD studies

Byblos, Lebanon

- Delivering course lectures, shared with other assistants.- Correction of assignments.- Fixing setup problems students had with Eclipse.- Answering questions during coding exercise sessions.

Byblos, Lebanon

- Participation in the creation of a MySQL database under the direction of a professor. - Tasks consisted of writing scripts for the purposes of the database, such as filtering entries and automated import of data. - Creation of an interface that created plots based on queries to the database.- Programming languages used include Perl, PHP, and R among others, in conjunction with the usage of biological databases such as Uniprot, Ensembl, and Biomart.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Bioinformatics

Thesis Title: Computational Approaches to Generating Diverse Enzyme Panels Worked on the development of in silico approaches for curating.

Master’S Degree, Bioinformatics, Distinction

Activities and Societies: Newcastle University Computing and Technology SocietyDissertation Title: Contact-map Prediction Using Machine.

Bachelor’S Degree, Bioinformatics

Activities and Societies: Association for Computing Machinery, You@LAUCapstone Project: PLINK Interface for Metadata Mapping Developed.

High School

Activities and Societies: Model-UN