Sara Hussin Email & Phone Number

Moreno Valley, Ca, Us

Merced, California, United States

• LA for the Applied Math Department at UC Merced.• Facilitate discussions to support student understanding of course material.• Promote active learning by encouraging interaction among students.• Collaborate with course instructors in weekly meetings to prepare for lectures.• Participate in pedagogical trainings on education theory and teaching techniques.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Develop QSAR ML models for predicting inhibitory compounds targeting cancer-related NEK proteins using random forests and neural networks.• Work with Python, ATOM’s ML pipeline (AMPL), and LLNL’s HPC cluster (LC).• Purified NEK2 kinase domain from E. coli and expressed NEK3, NEK5, and NEK9 kinase domains in E. coli.• Presented research at UCSF’s summer symposium in July 2024.

• Mentored high school students on bioinformatics projects, focusing on underrepresented women in STEM.• Taught core concepts, guided project planning, and ensured progress toward deadlines.• Supported mentees in presenting at the TSI conference and publishing in the TSI journal.

Berkeley, California, United States

• Simulated reads from synthetic metagenomes using CAMISIM.• Developed a pipeline to construct synthetic metagenomes and prepare input files for CAMISIM.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Analyzed flow cytometry data using FlowJo and GraphPad Prism.• Conducted a literature review comparing cytotoxicity assay methods and proposed an optimized approach to be implemented at CRISPR Therapeutics.

New York, New York, United States

• Developed an elastic net model that identified a set of mRNAs that were accurate predictors of patient response or resistance to lung cancer immunotherapy.• Presented findings at NYIT’s research symposium in April 2022.