Ashok Samantapudi

Research Assistant - Department of Health and Environmental Control

Columbia, SC

acdaex@r.postjobfree.com - 361-***-****

• Team player with a very good understanding in working with small and moderate teams in the research

projects.

• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills with ability to communicate effectively with peers.

• Over 2 years of experience in Data management, Data merging, longitudinal Data, Correlated Data,

Survival Data, Linear modeling, Mixed modeling and Data analysis in SAS.

• 2 years experience working with SQL.

• Experience in working with Research projects that includes writing up the journal papers

• Experience in working with South Carolina (SC) Statewide HIV/AIDS database (eHARS) which is the

only database for HIV/AIDS in SC and ADAP (AIDS Drug Adaptive Program ) database that have nearly

million data entries.

• Strong knowledge of statistical methods and tools, and data analytic skills.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills and strong presentation skills

• Experience in working effectively with a fast paced collaborative team environment.

• Experience in evaluating and manipulating data for identification of trends.

• Experience in building models and assessing their quality.

• Experience with linear and logistic regression, survival analysis, decision trees, and other statistical

techniques.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant

Department of Health and Environmental Control - Columbia, SC - May 2012 to Present

More than One and half years working with data management and data analysis using SAS and SQL

working in South Carolina department of Health and Environmental Control (SC DHEC) with eHARS

(HIV/AIDS Reporting System) and ADAP (AIDS Drug Assistance Program) datasets that has nearly a

million data entries.

• The work includes Community Viral load trend changes over time in SC, Individual viral load trend

changes over time in SC, and drug change of HIV/AIDS infected persons, Associations of urban/rural

residence with HIV timing.

• The work also includes finding the transition probabilities from detected viral load to undetected viral

load and vice versa.

• The responsibilities are data management that includes data sorting and data merging techniques with

different datasets and applying modeling techniques.

• The main challenge is to merge the drug information as HIV diagnosed people take different number of drugs

and different combination of these drugs constitutes a drug regimen.

The accomplishments include one journal article and 6 publications currently under draft form.

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Research Assistant

University of South Carolina - Columbia, SC - September 2011 to April 2013

2 years working with entire SC census tracts and doing statistical analysis with SAS, R and ArcGIS.

• The work includes if socio demographic and spatial disparities existed in the location of Leaking

Underground Storage Tanks (LUST), Toxic Release Inventories (TRI), Superfund sites, and Brownfields in

the state of South Carolina.

• The responsibilities include data analysis and its interpretation and data management. Modeling

techniques were also used for the analysis.

• The accomplishments include 3 journals and 2 more under review.

Teaching Assistant

University of South Carolina - Columbia, SC - August 2011 to May 2012

1 year working as a Teaching Assistant for course MCR 700 and BIOS J700 that includes

o 6 months grading the assignments and helping students solves their problems and assisting them.

o 6 months helping the professor in collecting materials to organize a new course.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Biostatistics

University of South Carolina - Columbia, SC

December 2013

Bachelor of Technology in Biotechnology

National Institute of Technology - Warangal, Andhra Pradesh

May 2010

PUBLICATIONS

The Spatial Distribution of Leaking Underground Storage Tanks in Charleston, South

Carolina: An Environmental Justice Analysis

2012

Spatial disparity in the distribution of superfund sites in South Carolina: an ecological

study

2013

Leaking Underground Storage Tanks and Environmental Injustice: Is There a Hidden

and Unequal Threat to Public Health in South Carolina?.

2013

Defining the Rural HIV Epidemic: Correlations of Three Definitions-South Carolina,

2005-2011.

2013

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Technical Skills

• Environment: Windows, Mac OS X

• Programming Languages: C, C++, SQL

• Databases: SQL, MS-Access

• Statistical Software: SAS, STATA, R (basic), GIS (basic)

• Other: MS Office (Word, Excel, Power point, Outlook)

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