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RAM PRASAD BORA

Curriculum vitae

Phone: +1-305-***-****

Department of Chemistry Email: *****@***.***, ****.****@*****.*** Los Angeles, CA, USA https://sites.google.com/site/ramcompbiochem/ 1

Innovation: Developed molecular modeling techniques for interpreting the biochemical properties of proteins. These approaches are instrumental in computational drug discovery and protein design processes.

Analytics: Employed Machine learning techniques towards the predictive modeling of structure- activity relationships of drug like molecules.

Leadership: Led several large (20+ member) scientific teams successfully bringing research to fulfilment. Served as a referee for several scientific journals including American Chemical Society journals, Wiley Journals etc.

Collaboration: Extensive experience working in large, diverse teams of professional scientists, software engineers, data modelers, graduate and undergraduate students. Education

2007 Ph.D. in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India 2000 M. S (Chemistry), Andhra University, Andhra Pradesh, India Work Experience

2010–till date Research Associate (Theoretical and Computational Biochemistry), University of Southern California

2008–2010 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Miami Programming and Modeling Experiences

Proficiency in running and code development of Molecular dynamics simulations

Proficiency in Fortran, C, R (RCommander, Rattle, dplyr, ggplot2, tm, etc.), Python (Numpy, Scipy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn, etc), SQL/PLSQL, MySQL, SPSS, and Tableau

Working experience with statistical data modeling and machine learning techniques

(Machine Learning: Supervised and un-supervised Machine Learning Algorithms (Linear Regression, Random Forests, k-means clustering, Decision trees), cross validation, over-fitting, anomaly detection, and feature engineering, text mining, sentiment analysis etc. Statistics: p- values, r-square, correlation, hypothesis testing, ANOVA, ANCOVA, t-tests, time series. Bayesian modeling, Monte Carlo Simulation, and dimensionality reduction etc.) RAM PRASAD BORA

Curriculum vitae

Phone: +1-305-***-****

Department of Chemistry Email: *****@***.***, ****.****@*****.*** Los Angeles, CA, USA https://sites.google.com/site/ramcompbiochem/ 2

Working experience with BIG Data Hadoop Eco systems

Working experience with KNIME workflows

Proficiency in Linux and system administration

Miscellaneous:

I am an author of 20+ scientific articles published in various international journals. In addition, I have presented my research in various international conference meetings (oral as well as poster presentations). I was a recipient of the prestigious “Ramalingaswami fellowship award” sponsored by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India for the year 2013. In addition, I served as a referee for several international scientific journals. Data Science related publications:

1. Ram Prasad Bora, R. Prabhakar, “Translational, rotational and internal dynamics of amyloid beta-peptides (Abeta40 and Abeta42) from molecular dynamics simulations,” J. Chem. Phys., 131, 155***-****** (2009).

2. B. Ram Prasad, M. S. Krishnan, E. Arunan, “Rotational Spectra of mono-substituted asymmetric C6H6-H2O dimers,” J. Mol. Spectrosc., 232, 308-314 (2005). Awards and Honors

2013 Ramalingaswami fellowship (sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India) (declined) 2010 University of Miami, Travel award to attend Annual meeting of Southeastern Theoretical Chemistry Association, Duke University, USA 2006 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research India, Travel award to attend International symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2001–2007 Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India, Graduate fellowship 2001 National level merit in all India level Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering

(Chemistry division) and secured admission for graduate study (Ph.D.) at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.

1998 Andhra Pradesh (India) State level merit list and secured admission for Master of Science

(Chemistry division) in Andhra University

1998 Andhra Pradesh (India) State level merit list and secured admission for Master of Science RAM PRASAD BORA

Curriculum vitae

Phone: +1-305-***-****

Department of Chemistry Email: *****@***.***, ****.****@*****.*** Los Angeles, CA, USA https://sites.google.com/site/ramcompbiochem/ 3

(Chemistry division) in Nagarjuna University (declined)

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