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Jacob Porter
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I am broadly interested in machine learning and data analysis and its applications in bioinformatics. I have done research with the read mapping of short bisulfite-treated DNA reads, organism prediction with Keras neural networks, and computational phylogeny. I enjoy learning new things about biology, and I enjoy new data science challenges. I have a PhD in computer science from Virginia Tech and a Masters in Applied Mathematics from UC Davis. I am currently a Postdoc at the University of Virginia.
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Virginia
October 2018
Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative
I apply machine learning and neural networks to problems in organism prediction and gene function prediction.
PhD Student
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
August 2012
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May 2018
Computer Science
As a PhD student in computer science, I worked on developing a read alignment program for bisulfite-treated short DNA reads. The program is called BisPin.
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