About

Welcome!

I am a Chemistry Ph.D. student at the University of Florida in the Miranda-Quintana Group with a focus on computational chemistry and data science. My main research interest is developing softwares for clustering, data analysis of Molecular simulations, and charge-transfer studies.

Outside of research, I am devoted to outreach toward diversity in STEM and stimulating scientific curiosity. I am also an artist/animator of biomolecules, see portfolio below. I enjoy photography, pilates, investing, and catching up on geopolitics in my free time.

Selected Software Contributions

Protein Refinement Molecular Ensembles (PRIME)

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Refining protein structures is important because the accuracy of protein structures influences our understanding of its function and its interactions with other molecules, which can help design new drugs to target specific molecular interactions. Six different ways of determining the native structure of biomolecules were introduced. These methods perfectly mapped all the structural motifs in the studied systems and required unprecedented linear scaling. Easy integration to clustering or simulation data.

 

Technologies used: Python

  PRIME

Quantifying Specific Ions Effect

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The mystery of ion selectivity in electrolyte solutions has puzzled scientists for centuries with little known why nature is keen on selecting one ion over the other, known as the specific ions effect. This project allows users to predict specific ion effect (SIE) properties through magnitudes extracted from conceptual DFT to approximate the charge and radius of an ion with or without perturbed descriptors and using different models of charge transfer in solution.

 

Technologies used: Python

  SIE

MD Starters

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md-starters provides sample code for preparing and analyzing molecular dynamics simulations, mainly for membrane proteins.

 

Technologies used: Python

  md-starters

RAnalytics

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This project delves in various statistical approaches and mathematical methods. Including correlation test, t-test, ANOVA, outlier selection, principle component analysis, regression test, and data visualization.

 

Technologies used: R

  RAnalytics

Technical Skills

  • Developed data analysis pipelines in Python, resulting in a 25x increase in efficiency.
  • Independently managed 16 Git repositories, ensuring proper documentation and version control.
  • Fluent in Blender with experience creating high-quality scientific renders for publications and presentations for molecules and biomolecules.
  • Conducted molecular dynamics simulations to investigate tricky systems such as protein-ligand interactions and membrane proteins using AMBER and NAMD.
  • Performed molecular dynamics enhanced sampling simulations using the Weighted Ensemble method with the WESPA software package
  • Proficient in quantum mechanical calculations using Gaussian software package.
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    R 40%
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    C++ 20%
    60% Complete (success)
    Bash Script 60%
    40% Complete (danger)
    HTML 40%

    Portfolio

    A collection of my science digital art. Click text to zoom