CV

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Education

  • Ph.D. Student, pharmaceutical sciences (Cheminformatics), University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Present
  • M.Sc., Electrical Engineering (Biomedical Engineering), Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2017
  • B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran, 2014

Work experience

  • Feb 2021 - Feb 2022: Chief Data Scientist (CDS)
    • Celeris Therapeutics, Graz, Austria
    • Duties included: Machine learning for targeted protein degradation
      • Machine learning to identify targets that are susceptible to degradation.
      • Machine learning for ternary complex prediction (complex formed by two proteins and degrader).
  • Apr 2019 - Dec 2020: Senior Data Scientist - Chemoinformatics / Machine learning expert
    • AI VIVO, Cambridge, UK
    • Duties included: Machine learning for drug repositioning, drug combination, and de novo drug design.
      • Predicting the effect of different perturbations (mostly small molecules) on different cell lines.
      • Developing machine learning tools for predicting synergy of drug combinations.
  • May 2018 - Dec 2019: Chief Scientific Officer (CSO)
    • Shenakht Pajouh, Tehran, Iran
    • Duties included: Reconciling Psychological knowledge with machine learning in order to build automated mental health assistant.
  • Feb 2017 - Jan 2018: Machine learning reasearcher
    • Cambridge system biology centre
    • Duties included: Deep learning in drug discovery
  • Jan 2017 - Aug 2017: Bioinformatics researcher
    • Royan Institute, Tehran, Iran
    • Duties included: Reconstructing context-specific metabolic networks from gene expression data.
  • Spring 2017: Teaching assistant
    • Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
    • Duties included: Advanced bioinformatics course, system biology course

Skills

  • Machine learning (Bayesian inference, Causal learning)
  • Bioinformatics
  • Programming
    • Python
    • R
    • C++
    • Rust

Publications

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Teaching

Service and leadership

  • Active Open Source Developer