Resume
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California Irvine, ongoing
- M.S., Bioinformatics, Indiana University, May 2006
- B.S., Informatics, Indiana University, Biology cognate, IT minor, May 2004
Experience
- Associate Instructor, Mathematical Foundations of Informatics for School of Informatics, 2004 - 2006 (Instructors Esfan Haghverdi and Steven Myers)
- Course Instructor, Mathematical Foundations of Informatics for School of Informatics, Summer 2005
Research
- Research Project, University of California, Irvine, Similarity Measures for Chemical Searching and Retrieval, Fall 2006 - Present
- Research Project, Indiana University, prediction of posttranslational protein modifications, Predrag Radivojac, advisor, Fall 2004 - 2006
- Research Project, Indiana University, researching size of duplicated gene families, Dennis Groth and Mike Wade, advisors, Fall 2003 - Spring 2004
- Strome Lab, Indiana University, Molecular Biology Bench work/Project, studying Caulobacter Crescentus genes ClpX and DnaA, Summer 2003
General Skills
- Programming: Python, Perl (with BioPerl), Matlab, PHP, Java, HTML (CSS), experience using other scripting languages, C/C++, R statistical package, SQL, and XML
- Operating Systems Unix/Linux, Windows, Mac OSX
- Lab techniques: PCR, gel electrophoresis, bacterial plating and streaking, primer design, digestion, ligation, transformation, DNA sequencing, Northern/Western/Southern blots, rtPCR
Publications and Awards
- K. M. Daily, P. Radivojac, A. K. Dunker. Intrinsic disorder and protein modifications: building an SVM predictor for methylation. IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, CIBCB 2005, pp. 475-481, San Diego, California, U.S.A., November 2005. pdf website
- IEEE CIS Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Travel Grant, November 2005
- Informatics Barwise Scholar - 2004-2006 link