Scientific Software Engineer

• Oct 2019 - Present

Postdoctoral Researcher

• Jan 2018 - Aug 2018

Developing CCMpredPy: learning exact statistical models of protein families and CCMgen: generating realistic synthetic protein alignments. - method development involved data preparation, statistical modelling, parameter estimation, numerical optimization, simulating synthetic data from generative models using Gibbs sampling, model and performance evaluation and data visualizations - results published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal and software available as Python package on Github along with documented code fully reproducing the analysis - programming in Linux bash, Python, visualization with plotly Show less

PH.D. student

• Sep 2013 - Dec 2017

PhD project in the Soeding Lab ( Quantitative and Computational Biology) ”Bayesian Statistical Approach for Prediction of Protein Residue-Residue Contacts” Applying Bayesian modelling and machine learning approaches to predict physical contacts between amino acids in the protein structure from protein sequences alone. - collecting and cleaning data and extraction of features - exploratory analysis and visualization of high dimensional data - statistical modelling (Bayesian, graphical), hyperparameter estimation using maximum likelihood, MCMC sampling and Bayesian methods - numerical optimization using first and second order optimization algorithms - deploying machine learning pipelines (Random forest, logistic regression) - model evaluation and performance benchmarks - setting great value upon reproducible, well-documented software accompanied by interactive visualizations - programming in Linux Bash, Python, R, C++, visualization with plotly, ggplot and shiny Show less

Research Assistant

• Mar 2012 - Oct 2013

Development and analysis of QSAR models for biodegradability data using the Online chemical modeling environment (OCHEM) Development and analysis of QSAR models for biodegradability data using the Online chemical modeling environment (OCHEM)

Student Trainee

• Oct 2008 - Mar 2011

• development of a web portal for clients and an internal company Wiki • support in sofware development and establishment of automated software tests • development of a web portal for clients and an internal company Wiki • support in sofware development and establishment of automated software tests

Sports Soldier

• Jul 2006 - Jul 2008

• raised into position of sergeant • participation in numerous international championships • female junior world champion accuracy skydiving in Lucenec, SVK, 2008 • raised into position of sergeant • participation in numerous international championships • female junior world champion accuracy skydiving in Lucenec, SVK, 2008