Quality Assurance Computer Science

CURRICULUM VITAE

Yulia Netwon

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http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~ynewton/

EDUCATION

**** ******* ********** ** **********, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California

Ph.D. student, Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics

20082011 San JosE State University, San JosE, California

B.S. Computer Science with minor in Mathematics

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

June 2012Present: Computational drug target prediction based on large-scale pathway

data analysis

Department of Biomolecular Engineering, UC Santa Cruz (Ph.D. Thesis research)

Principal Investigator: Dr. Josh Stuart, Associate Professor

Apr 2012June 2012: Classification of human centromeric sequences

Department of Biomolecular Engineering, UC Santa Cruz (Rotation Project)

Principal Investigator

:

Dr. David Haussler, Distinguished Professor, DirectorJan 2012Mar 2012: Discovery of master regulators in basal vs. luminal breast cancer

Department of Biomolecular Engineering, UC Santa Cruz (Rotation Project)

Principal Investigator: Dr. Josh Stuart, Associate ProfessorSept 2011Dec 2011: Evidence of biased gene conversion in the 1000 genomes trio data

Department of Biomolecular Engineering, UC Santa Cruz (Rotation Project)

Principal Investigator

:

Dr. Richard Green, Assistant ProfessorFeb 2011May 2011: Genome assembler using De Bruijn graphs

Department of Computer Science, San JosE State University (Term Project)

Principal Investigator: Dr. Sami Khuri, ProfessorFeb 2011May 2011: Statistical analysis of microarray gene expression data for ten

healthy patients and ten patients affected by Muscular Dystrophy to determine key up and

down regulations in the affected patients

Department of Computer Science, San JosE State University (Term Project)

Principal Investigator: Dr. Sami Khuri, Professor

Aug 2010 Jan 2011: Building and visualizing drug-protein interaction networks for

predicting previously unknown drug interactions

Department of Computer Science, San JosE State University (Independent Study

Project)

Principal Investigator: Dr. Sami Khuri, ProfessorAug 2010Dec 2010: Prokaryotic gene predictor using Hidden Markov Models

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Department of Computer Science, San JosE State University (Term Project)

Principal Investigator: Dr. Sami Khuri, Professor

Sep 2010: Global and local protein sequence aligner using specially computed PAM

matrices for transmembrane proteins

Department of Computer Science, San JosE State University (Assignment Project)

Principal Investigator: Dr. Sami Khuri, Professor

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Bioinformatics

Machine Learning

AI

Computational Genomics

Computational Systems Biology

Software development

Genetics

PUBLICATIONS, CONFERENCE AND POSTER REFEREED

PRESENTATIONS

"Discovery of master regulators in basal breast cancer" poster presentation at the

th

20 International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB),

upcoming in July 2012

"Evidence of biased gene conversion in 1000 genomes trio data" poster

presentation at the Biomedical Computation at Stanford conference (CSUPERB),

November 2011

"Building and visualizing compound-target interaction networks" poster

presentation at the refereed symposium The California State University Program for

Education and Research in Biotechnology (BCATS), January 2011

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Guest Instructor Lead two sessions of Learning Evolution Using Phylogenetic Analysis

unit to

high school AP Biology students at Pacific Collegiate School, Santa Cruz, CA, January

2012.

Was responsible for single handedly developing the unit curriculum, student worksheet,

teacher s guide, and in-class power point presentation.

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Guest Instructor Lead a 6 grade science class in a hands-on learning experience on how

to extract DNA from strawberries, New Brighton Middle School, Capitola, CA, May 2012

Workshop Instructor Lead three Secret Life of Strawberries workshops on extracting DNA

from strawberries for middle school aged children at Science Alive! event, Gavilan

College,

Gilroy, CA, February 2012

Science fair judge Judged science and engineering fair for middle school and high

school

age children,

Pacific Collegiate School, Santa Cruz, CA, February 2012Guest Instructor Taught Genes and Diseases workshop to high school AP Biology students

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Pacific Collegiate School, Santa Cruz, CA, January 2012

Grader Advanced Java Programming and Data Structures, San Jose State University,

Spring 2009

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS

Volunteer abstract reviewer for ISCB Student Council Symposium 2012 (April 2012)

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Volunteer, 9 Annual International Conference on Computational Systems Bioinformatics at

Stanford, CA (Aug 2010)

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Spring 2012 awarded recognition of exemplary academic achievement by the Dean of

College of Science at San Jose State University for the academic year 2010-2011

Spring 2011 awarded recognition of exemplary academic achievement by the Dean of

College of Science at San Jose State University for the academic year 2009-2010

Summer 2010 was one of only ten students selected from the Computer Science and

Computer Engineering departments to spend five weeks at The School of Business

and Engineering Vaud (HEIG-VD) in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, studying

various computational topics

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Apr 2008- Sep 2008Software EngineerXetus Corporation, Mountain View, CA

Developed white box and unit test scripts using Java and Unix shell. Responsible for

back-end relational database design for MySQL databases. Developed back-end

database scripts using SQL.

Jan 2006- Feb 2008Quality Assurance ManagerRentOneOnline, Scotts Valley, CA

Responsible for all aspects of the software Quality Assurance process. Came into

setting with no QA department in place with an objective to build-up from scratch,

expand in manpower, and run the department. Performed entire spectrum of QA

related hands-on tasks as well as department and project management responsibilities.

Jun 2003- Dec 2005Product Development and QA Manager

Oct 2002- Jun 2003Quality Assurance Manager

May 2000- Oct 2002Senior Quality Assurance EngineerMediware Corporation, Scotts Valley, CA

Came into setting with no QA department in place. Was responsible for developing

and implementing all QA related procedures, policies, and processes. Expanded the

department up to four engineers, at which point was promoted to the management

position to oversee it. Continued to perform hands-on as well as all department

management responsibilities. Was later promoted to run the entire product

development department, which included Software Engineering, QA, and Customer

Service and Implementations divisions.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Programming: R, Matlab, Python, Perl, Java, JSP, C/C++, Scheme, Prolog, C#, GO,

XML, XSLT, Java Servlets, ASP. Net, UML, SQL, PL-SQL, T-SQL, Javascript, HTML,

Unix Shell Script, Visual Basic, NetLogo, InstallShield Pro, Wise

Database Servers: Oracle, SqlServer, MySQL, DB2, MS Access

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Operating Systems: Unix, Windows, Mac OS X

Other: Crystal Reports/Business Objects, MS VSS, Tortoise SVNREFERENCES

References are available upon request

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