Asem Alaa

Worked as GTA for Methods for Data Science course, delivered to large cohorts of 150-200 students. Supplemented the teaching materials with pedagogical ML Python notebooks. Provided feedback sections analysing the performance of students in exams focusing on common mistakes and presenting best practices.

Directed a team of 4-6 CV engineers. Supervised two interns. Directed Research Agenda. Led the recruitment. Topics: Computer Vision, Computational Geometry, Accelerated Linear Algebra. Tools: C, C++, TensorFlow, Qt.

Delivered & created extended online section materials for Data Structures and Algorithms, Computer Vision, Biostatistics, Biological Signals Processing. Some materials developed for online access: https://sbme-tutorials.github.io/2020/data-structures https://sbme-tutorials.github.io/2020/cv https://sbme-tutorials.github.io/2019/biostatistics/biostatistics.html https://sbme-tutorials.github.io/2018/dsp/dsp.html

Research collaboration on machine learning applications for plant disease detection.

Developed computer vision methods for planned dental surgeries. Topics: Computer Vision, Graph Algorithms, Dynamic Programming. Tools: C++, Qt, ITK, OpenCV, DICOM.

Research on Mechanically Induced Trapping of Molecular Interactions followed by HT-seq (MITOMI-seq): Developing a microfluidic platform as a technique to characterize gene regulatory networks in DNA.

MEMS design and optimization, Micro-fabrication, Characterization techniques.

Different Levels of Temporal Modeling of Electronic Health Records. Kewords — Temporal ML, Electronic Health Records, Disease Progression Modeling, Neural ODEs.

Interpretable Machine Learning Methods for Predicting Protein Subcellular Localization. Keywords --- Proteomics, Markov Chains, Time Series Analysis, Machine Learning, C++

High Performance Distributed Volume Rendering on Heterogeneous Computing Platforms. Project Scope: Investigating parallel and distributed rendering algorithms for accelerating volume reconstruction on multiple GPUs workstations. Kewords — Distributed Rendering, Sort-first, Sort-last, OpenCL, Socket Programming, SSH, Cluster Rendering, C/C++, Qt.