I am a senior Mathematics and Computer Science major at Chapman University in Orange, CA. Outside of school I participate in bioinformatics and machine learning research. I also freelance as a web developer building database applications. If you are interested in hiring me or collaborating please see my resume and get in contact with me using this website. I will be happy to converse through email.
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Bioinformatics
I am specifically working to automate the creation of phylogenies or "phylogenetic trees". The idea is to provide an interface for biologists to order a phylogeny by specifying a set of seed sequences and target organisms.Currently, I provide a search service using Chapman University's computing infrastructure to simply the identification of orthologs. This will be available in early 2010 at ortholog.us.
In the near future (early 2010) this will be expanded to support protein-nucleotide searches to allow searching EST data for orthologs.
Machine Learning
I am currently working on two projects which both involve mining software repositories. The first uses Markov Models to predict entity types of Java identifiers. This has been incorporated in an Eclipse plug-in to help novice programmers adhere to standard naming conventions. The accompanying paper has been accepted to ACM's SIGCSE 2010.The second involves topic modeling and I won't get into it here until the paper has been completed and submitted. More to come soon.