2007 - present

Scientific Software Engineer, Dept. of Bio-engineering, California Institute of Technology

• Optimization of Nupack core analysis engine - C/C++, Numerical analysis, profiling.
• Parallelization of Nupack web backend - Linux, Ruby, Rails, Spread toolkit, HPC, Torque.
• 2D and 3D DNA/RNA structure visualization - Numerical and Scientific Python, OpenGL, C++, JSON.
• Interactive 2D DNA/RNA structure editing - Javascript JSON, Dojo toolkit, Web 2.0, HTML Canvas.

2000 - 2007

Research Scientist, High Energy Physics, California Institute of Technology

• Creator of the Clarens Web Services Toolkit (more...) - distributed computing, Python, X509, high speed data transfer.
  • Built to allow machine and web-based access to data produced by the Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva, Switzerland.
  • High performance, fine-grained Public Key Infrastructure Authentication, Authorization and Auditing framework.
  • UltraLight uses Clarens toolkit.

Awards

• Ultralight project IDEA Award Winners 2007 and 2008 CENIC Innovations Award.

Publication list

• Service-Oriented Architecture for NVO and TeraGrid Computing