* Developed an approach to connect model organism genes to evolutionary variation in taxa using semantic similarity of phenotypes.* Developed a statistical framework using multilinear regression models to estimate the significance of semantic similarity database queries.* Designed and implemented an experiment to investigate the effect of anatomical homology on cross-species phenotype similarity.* Evaluated the performance of an NLP phenotype annotation software using annotation consistency between human curators and a consensus gold standard. * Participated in the Encyclopedia of Life hackathon. Developed a temporal data mining algorithm that uses context vector analysis to study how the usage of anatomical concepts evolves over time.* Developed a method for automated scheduling of concurrent sessions in conferences. Created Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic models from conference abstracts. Used stochastic optimization to assign talks to sessions so as to minimize semantic overlap between concurrent sessions and maximize coherence within sessions.

* Taught "Introduction to Software Engineering" lab.* Served as Project Manager for the student teams and monitored project development.* Graded student assignments.

* Developed a web-based computational tool for Gene Ontology based hypothesis testing.* Developed novel data mining algorithms to mine interesting cross-ontology relationships from large scale ontology-based data.* Developed cross-ontology interestingness metrics based on information theory to assess the relevance of biological association rules. * Supervised an undergraduate student as part of the NSF "Research Experience for Undergrads" program.* Managed the AgBase database, a large repository of biological data that serves as the backend for the AgBase suite of computational tools.

* Ontology Research and Review * Developed a preliminary ontology framework to capture adverse outcome pathways.