Achievements

Oral Presentations

• Head organizer, CYTO 2018 image analysis challenge workshop & hackathon, May 2018.
• Invited speaker, VIZBI 2018, Boston MA, March 2018.
• Invited speaker, Science For Life Lab, Science Summit, 2017.
• Invited speaker, CYTO 2017.
• Invited speaker, Big 4 workshop Tovetorp Sweden, October 2016.
• Co-founder/organizer, Short-term innovative research (STIR) grant competition, 2014-2016.
• Course organizer and invited lecturer, Tutorial for Computational Methods for Spatially Realistic Microphysical Simulations, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, April 2014, 2015.
• Scientific Tutorial, “Cell Organizer: Building Models of Cell Structure from Microscope Images and Using them for High-Content Screening and Cell Simulations” CYTO Congress of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry, San Diego, CA 2013.
• Oral Presentation, Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 15, 2013.
• Oral Presentation, Spatial Rule-based Modeling of Cellular Biochemistry with MCell/ BioNetGen/CellBlender, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 14 2013.
• Oral Presentation, Highlight Talk on behalf of R.F. Murphy, International Society for Computational Biology Conference, Long Beach, California, July 18, 2012.
• Oral Presentation, Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 15, 2012.

Courses/Workshops

Phenotypic high content screening workshop, KTH, April 2018

Co-organizer (tutorial), Threshold Concepts in teaching and learning, Scholarship of teaching and learning at KTH, March 2017.

Co-organizer, Live Science Gaming Competition, EVE Fanfest 2016, March 2016.

Course instructor, Analysis and integration of Transcriptome and Proteome Data, EMBL, Feb 2016.

Short-term innovative research (STIR) grant competition co-founder/organizer, 2014-2016.

Course Organizer and Invited lecturer, Tutorial for Computational Methods for Spatially Realistic Microphysical Simulations, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, April 2015.

Course Organizer, Tutorial for Computational Methods for Spatially Realistic Microphysical Simulations, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, April 2014.

Scientific Tutorial, “Cell Organizer: Building Models of Cell Structure from Microscope Images and Using them for High-Content Screening and Cell Simulations” CYTO Congress of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry, San Diego, CA 2013.

Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant, Algorithms and Data Structures, Spring 2014.

Teaching Assistant, Quantitative Cell and Molecular Biology Lab, Fall 2011-Fall 2012.

Teaching Assistant, Cellular Response to The Environment, Fall 2011-Fall 2012.

Teaching Assistant, Quantitative Cell and Molecular Biology Lab, Fall 2011-Fall 2012.

Teaching Assistant, Lab Methods in Computational Biology, Spring 2012.

Other

Founder and Inaugural President, Carnegie Mellon University-University of Pittsburgh Joint PhD program in Computational Biology Graduate Student Association 2013-2014.

Invited Scholar, Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, MOSAIC Group, June 2013.

NIH T32 Training Grant Recipient, 2010-2012.