Albert Stanley

Hayward, CA 94542 · (510) 331-4958 · ajstanley@ucdavis.edu

I am a student passionate about artificial intelligence and computational approaches in biology.


Experience

Undergraduate Programmer

quonbio (Link)

R-loops are a three stranded structure consisting of an RNA strand and two DNA strands. They are of interest because of their roles in both regulation and genome instability. This project aims to predict R-loop formation in the genome based off of DNA sequence and other input tracks.

General Tasks:
  • Training convolutional neural networks.
  • Tuning hyperparameters such as learning rate, number of layers, regularization, and dropout to improve model performance.
  • Experimenting with feature attribution methods (DEEPLIFT, in-silico-mutagenesis) to determine patterns in R-loop formation.
  • Writing scripts to pipeline software tools and automate submissions of jobs to HPC cluster.
February 2021 - Present

Teacher's Assistant

ECS 150: Operating Systems (Link)

As a TA, I created test cases for the autograder (Python) and held office hours for project help (C++).

March 2021 - June 2021

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Al-Bassam Laboratory of Microtubule Dynamics, Structure and Mechanism

My primary responsibilities were to handle processing of cryo-electron microscope image datasets. I used computational tools (RELION and crYOLO) to reduce time required to detect and box out particles in microscope images.

June 2017 - May 2018

Projects

Innovation Minds Recommendation Engine

Artificial Intelligence Society Club Industry Project

I worked in team of four students and Innovation Minds developers to implement a recommendation engine on a human resources web platform. We developed and implemented an algorithm in Python to sort users based on personality and skill data to find suitable teammates. We also created an endpoint with Flask to allow the Innovation Minds web development team to query teammates from our algorithm.

December 2019

Restaurant Tinder

Web Programming Class Project

This is a tinder-like app for choosing a restaurant when you are in a group and can not reach a consensus. Users will pick a restaurant food category they might be interested in going to, and the app will bring them restaurants in their area. They will swipe left if they don't like the restaurant and right if they like it until there is only 1 restaurant left. I worked on this project in a group of three students.

May 2020

TouchCard - Personalized Postcard Creator

Web Programming Class Project

A web application allowing users to create and customize postcards. These postcards are stored on the server and users are provided a link that they can share.

April 2020

Education

University of California, Davis

Bachelor of Science
Computer Science

GPA: 4.00

Courses: Machine Learning, Operating Systems, Web Development, Artifical Intelligence, Data Structures, Software Development in UNIX and C++

September 2018 - June 2022

Skills

Languages
  • Python, C, C++, Java, Javascript, SQL, HTML/CSS

Technologies
  • Keras, SQLite, Express.js, Flask, NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn