Dr. Neda Rafieiolhosseini

Data Scientist / Data Engineer

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Work Experiences


01/2021-12/2021

Research Assistant

Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics Group, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Project title: Developing a Simulated Annealing Monte Carlo Approach to Predict Binding Sites of Large Ligand-Protein Complexes (DFG CRC 1093)

09/2019-12/2020

Researcher (Scholarship)

Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics Group, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Project title: Developing a Simulated Annealing Monte Carlo Approach to Predict Binding Sites of Large Ligand-Protein Complexes

Developing and implementing a computer code with Julia and Python

Analyzing, clustering, and visualizing the simulated data with R

Grants

DAAD One-Year Research Grant (09.2019 - 06.2020)

University of Duisburg-Essen Research Grant (07.2020 - 12.2020)

10/2017-05/2018

Researcher

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Group, Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy

Project title: Investigating the interaction of silica and amyloid beta peptide.

Implementation of molecular dynamics simulations on computer clusters

Analyzing the obtained data with MATLAB

Academic Degrees


02/2022-06/2022

Vocational Training in Data Science

WBS Coding School, Berlin, Germany

10/2015-03/2021

Ph.D. in Computational Physics

School of Nano, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran

Thesis Title: “Investigating thermal properties of cell membrane with different compositions”. Download Thesis

GPA: 17.63 out of 20

10/2012-06/2015

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering (Bioelectric)

Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering Group, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Thesis Title: “Analytical investigation of ultra-weak photon emission and possibility study of early diagnosis based on their statistical features”. Download Thesis

GPA: 18.31 out of 20.0 (First Class Honors)

10/2007-02/2012

B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering (Bioelectric)

Biomedical Engineering Group, University of Esfahan, Esfahan, Iran

Thesis Title: “Simulation of a Wireless Neuro-Stimulator and Design and Implementation of a Neural Recorder”.

GPA: 15.63 out of 20.0

06/2006

High School Diploma in Mathematics and Physics

Cumulative Average: 19.86 out of 20.0

Projects


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Automated Data Pipeline on the Could (AWS)

Medium Article / GitHub Code

14-3-3
Protein-Ligand Interaction in Drug Design

BJOC Scientific Article / GitHub Code

Scientific Achievements


"Thermal conductivity of the cell membrane in the presence of cholesterol and amyloid precursor protein"

Rafieiolhosseini, Neda; Ejtehadi, Mohammad Reza.

Physical Review E 102.4 (2020): 042401.

"Photocount statistics of ultra-weak photon emission from germinating mung bean."

Rafieiolhosseini, Neda, et al.

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology 162 (2016): 50-55.

"Different aspects of ultra-weak photon emissions: a review article."

Rafii-Tabar, Hashem, and Neda Rafieiolhosseini.

Iranian Journal of Medical Physics 12.3 (2015): 137-144.

Translation of the book "Fundamentals of Medical Imaging by Paul Suetens" to Farsi

F. Keyvanfard, L. Shahshahani,
N. Rafieiolhosseini, M. Kafaee.

Amirkabir University of Technology Publication

Online presentation: Thermal Conductivity of the Cell Membrane

Joint QLS-CMSP Virtual Summer Retreat on Heat, Water, Noise, and Life. ICTP, Italy, 2020.

Poster Presentation

Conference on Atomistic Simulations of Biomolecules : towards a Quantitative Understanding of Life Machinery. Trieste, Italy, 2017.

Oral Presentaion

11th Iranian Conference of Medical Physics. Teheran, Iran, 2013.

IT Skills


Programming Languages

Python, Julia, MATLAB, R

Database

SQL, MySQL Server, MySQL Workbench

Data Science Tools

Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, Computer Vision, Artificial Neural Networks, Pandas, Tableau, scikit-learn, Matplotlib

Molecular Dynamics Simulation Packages

GROMACS, LAMMPS, VMD, PyMOL

Internet Technologies

HTML, CSS

Tools

Git, VS Code, Linux, Linux Bash Scripting

Language Skills


English
Proficient user

IELTS Academic Certificate (overall score of 7.0 out of 9.0) (2016)

TOEFL IBT Certificate (overall score of 91 out of 120) (2012)

German
Business fluent

Persian
Native speaker