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Ali K. - Remote

Ali K.

Timezone: Cairo (UTC+3)

Summary

Ali has a Master in Computer Science with a thesis in Bioinformatics. Ali is a data scientist in bioinformatics using deep learning and NLP. Ali is currently a research assistant in the Bioinformatics Research Group & Master student at Nile University. His recent work included different applications of deep learning in targeted metagenomics. He was a member of H3ABioNet, where he supervised 2 bioinformatics courses as a teaching assistant. Also, he participated in IBM/H3ABioNet Malaria Hackathon that combined systems biology with machine learning. This work was published in Genome Research: https://genome.cshlp.org/content/28/5/759.full

Work Experience

Bioinformatics Research Assistant
Nile University | Oct 2017 - Sep 2019
Nltk
NLP (Natural Language Processing)
Deep Learning
TensorFlow
Keras
Metagenomics
My work in NU included different applications of deep learning and NLP in targeted metagenomics.
Bioinformatics Researcher
H3ABioNet, NIH | Jan 2016 - Sep 2017
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Bioinformatics
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Personal Projects

Taxonomic Classification of Bacteria using NLP & DLIconOpenNewWindows
2018
NLP (Natural Language Processing)
Deep Learning
Bioinformatics
A simple classifier to classify thousands of bacterial classes using NLP & DL
Malaria Resistance PredictionIconOpenNewWindows
2016
Machine Learning
Bioinformatics
Artificial Neural Networks