Taken May 11, 2008
Postal Correspondence:
Ninad Dewal
Department of Biomedical Informatics
622 West 168th Street
Vanderbilt Clinic, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10032
Electronic Correspondence (Academic):
ninad dot dewal at dbmi dot columbia dot edu
Electronic Correspondence (Personal):
ninad dot dewal at gmail dot com
Short Version
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Ph.D. Candidate, Biomedical Informatics (Track: Bioinformatics) (2006 - Present) Columbia University, New York, NY, Research Advisor: Itsik Pe'er |
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MS, Computer Science (Tracks: Bioinformatics, Data Networking) (2002 - 2005) University of California, San Diego, Thesis Advisor: Pavel Pevzner |
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BS, Computer Science (1998 - 2002) Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA |
Long Version
Currently, I am a second year Ph.D. candidate in the Biomedical Informatics program at Columbia University, New York. My research interests include computer science and bioinformatics, with a focus in the computational human genetics side of bioinformatics. My current project involves identification of cancer genes using single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and copy number variation information.
In March of 2005, I graduated from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) with an MS in Computer Science. My thesis was completed in the bioinformatics area under the guidance of Pavel Pevzner. The thesis involved analyzing genomes to discover evidence of Whole Genome Duplication events.
Prior to UCSD, I attended Stanford University from 1998 to 2002 as an undergraduate and studied Computer Science. I especially loved my time there, having been awed by the awesome quality of education, research, activities, and campus aesthetics (e.g. palm trees on campus). In addition, I formed some of my closest friendships during this time and hope to stay in touch with my friends for years to come.
Roughly between UCSD and Columbia, I worked as a Software Engineer at Akonix Systems in downtown San Diego (bet. 2004 - 2006) and was in technical charge of the Akonix L7 Enforcer product.