curriculum

In this section you can find my CV in the form of a summary.

Basics

Name Diego Fernández Edreira
Label Bioinformatician & Data Scientist
Email diego.fedreira@udc.es
Url https://diegofe94.github.io
Summary Biologist and bioinformatician. PhD in Bioinformatics for health.

Work

  • 2024 - Present
    Bioinformatician
    MALL, Universidade da Coruña
    Working on drug repurposing. The project's focus on repurposing existing drugs for new therapies aims to address high failure rates and costs.
    • Bioinformatics
    • Drug Repurpousing
    • Docking
  • 2023 - 2023
    Bioinformatician
    CITIC, Universidade da Coruña
    Working on an application for the detection of polyps in colonoscopy using Deep Learning. As well as the integration of the models generated in web applications and mobile applications.I was working with python for image processing and model training (opencv, tensorflow, keras, scikit-learn...). For the web development I used flask and for the Android application I used TensorFlow Lite and Dart.
    • Bioinformatics
    • Computer Vision
  • 2022 - 2023
    Bioinformatician
    Fundación Profesor Novoa Santos
    Working as a bioinformatics researcher in a project called Practicum Direct (IN845D2020/03), focused on analysis, validation and testing of ad hoc simulation models designed with open data and predictive models based on real data. I had several duties: review of the state of the art in terms of availability of open omics and clinical data, implementation of predictive models on real open data in R/Python and create dashboards with R and Shiny for the manipulation and presentation of results in an interactive ways.
    • Bioinformatics
    • Machine Learning
  • 2021 - 2021
    Bioinformatician
    Fundación Profesor Novoa Santos
    Working as a bioinformatics researcher in a colorectal cancer project. During this period I gained experience in metagenomic data processing, as well as, developing Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence pipelines. Also I gained experience in the presentation and visualization of complex data.
    • Bioinformatics
    • Machine Learning

Volunteer

  • 2018 - 2018
    Teacher
    Small World Initiative
    The Small World Initiative® (SWI) is an innovative program that encourages students to pursue careers in science while addressing a worldwide health threat superbugs and the diminishing supply of effective antibiotics
    • SWI
    • Superbugs
    • Antibiotics
    • Scientific dissemination

Education

Awards

  • 2020.09.01
    Honourable mention
    University of A Coruña
    Honourable mention in Master's thesis
  • 2020.09.01
    Honourable mention
    University of A Coruña
    Honourable mention in Data Structures and Algorithmics for Biological Sequences

Publications

Skills

Coding
R, Bash and Python
Bioconductor and Biopython
Docker, Singularity and Snakemake
Shiny and Flask
High Performance Computing
NGS Pipelines
Machine Learning
Productivity
Trello, Slack and Teams
Word, Excel and Powerpoint
GitHub
ChatGPT prompts

Languages

Spanish
Native speaker
Galician
Native Speaker
English
Fluent
French
Basic

Interests

Work
Transcriptomics
Drug discovery
Medical Imaging
Personal
Coffee, Sleep and Food
Boxing
Manga

References

Dr. Carlos Fernández Lozano
Associate Professor (Profesor Titular de Universidad) and vice-dean of computing resources of the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of A Coruña (UDC), Department of Computer Science and Information Technologies. Affiliated Researcher at the Centre for Information and Communications Technology Research (CITIC).
Dr. Jose Liñares Blanco
Postdoctoral researcher at Institute for Computational Biomedicine - Heidelberg University

Projects

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