• Experience in solving data analysis problems independently using statistical knowledge and logical reasoning
• Strong data analytics experience using the statistical programming languages R and Python
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Experience
Full-time faculty at the Computer Science Department
Davenport University
Jul 2017 - Present
o Teaching: I taught several classes. During this assignment, I taught several topics such as: C# programming, Data structure and algorithms, Perl, Python, Mobile Application Development, Data Analytics, and Object Oriented Programming.
o Advising graduate students with their master's projects. In most of the projects, the students implement advanced analysis to identify insights from data.
Data scientist
Aquasight LLC.
Nov 2016 - Jul 2017 (8 months, 2 days)
o During this position, I analyzed large datasets from the Great Lake Water Authority (GLWA) database. I was assigned tasks to reduce operational costs for the wastewater plant in Detroit (one of the largest plants in the world).
Education
Ph.D.
Wayne State University, United States 2012 - 2021
(9 years)
M.S.
Wayne State University, United States 2009 - 2011
(2 years)
B.S.
Al-Mansour University College, Iraq 1991 - 1995
(4 years)
Publications
Methods and approaches in the topology-based analysis of biological pathways.
Frontiers in Physiology
We identify and discuss challenges, arising both in methodology and in pathway representation, including inconsistent terminology, different data formats, lack of meaningful benchmarks, and the lack of tissue and condition specificity.
Platelets and renal failure in the SARS-CoV-2 syndrome
Platelets
The coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) is a highly transmittable viral infection caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). SARS-CoV-2 utilizes metallocarboxyl peptidase angiotensin receptor (ACE) 2 to gain entry into human cells. Our data suggest that activated platelets may play a role in renal failure and possibly hypercoagulability status in COVID19 patients.
Detection of Cystic Fibrosis Serological Biomarkers Using a T7 Phage Display Library.
Scientific Reports
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive disorder affecting the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). . A microarray platform was constructed and immunoscreened with sera from healthy (n = 49), lung cancer (LC) (n = 31) and CF (n = 31) subjects. For the first time, we show that CF specific serological biomarkers can be identified through immunocreenings of a T7 phage display library with high accuracy, which may have utility in development of molecular therapy.
Novel T7 Phage Display Library Detects Classifiers for Active Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection
Viruses
Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and transmitted through inhalation of aerosolized droplets. We immunoscreened our microarray platform with sera from healthy (n = 45), smear positive TB (n = 24), and sarcoidosis (n = 107) subjects.The area under receiver operating characteristics (ROC) for the top 10 significant clones was 1 with a sensitivity of 1 and a specificity of 1 when we performed classification.
Identifying biologically relevant putative mechanisms in a given phenotype comparison
PLOS ONE
A major challenge in life science research is understanding the mechanism involved in a given phenotype. The current data analysis methods focus on the identification of the differentially expressed (DE) genes using their fold change and/or p-values. Here we present a method that can construct networks of genes that can be considered putative mechanisms.