Drew H. Bryant

drew.h.bryant __AT__ gmail.com

Work Experience

Rice University 2004-present Physical and Biological Computing Group
  • Designed and implemented a publicly available web-based application for protein function prediction
  • Coded an automated large-scale data mining pipeline to gather biological meta-data from heterogeneous sources and produce graphics-rich summary reports
  • Developed software to distribute computationally expensive protein analysis algorithms over large clusters of computers using MPI
  • Constructed statistical models to automatically detect statistically significant local structural features between proteins
  • Synthesized unsupervised machine learning approaches with linear/non-linear dimensionality reduction for protein classification
  • Created novel geometric models of protein catalytic sites to improve computational protein function prediction accuracy
University of Houston May-September, 2010 Center for Biomedical and Environmental Genomics
  • Implemented statistical models for distinguishing low frequency/rare variant SNPs from sequencing anomalies
  • Coded an automated pipeline for mapping NCBI and MITOMAP genomic annotations to newly sequenced genomes
Genentech, Inc. June-December, 2007 Internship with the Department of Early-Stage Purification
  • Implemented a lab- and pilot-scale, non-chromatography process for monoclonal antibody (mAb) purification
  • Optimized purification process parameters for improved mAb yield and time-efficiency
  • Utilized a robotic wet lab station for automated, high-throughput parameter sweeping

Education

Rice University 2003-2007 B.S. in Bioengineering awarded May, 2007 Specialization: Cellular and Molecular Engineering
Rice University 2007-2010 M.S. in Computer Science awarded January, 2010 Thesis: Mapping the structural landscape of protein families with geometric feature vectors
Rice University 2010-present PhD Student in Computer Science Thesis: Top Secret

Programming Skills

  • Languages:

    • Python
    • C
    • C++
    • Java
    • (La)Tex
    • Javascript
    • PHP

  • Web Development:

    • AJAX techniques
    • Django
    • SVG
    • MySQL
    • HTML/CSS
    • SOAP and RESTful web services
    • Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator

  • Statistical Analysis

    • R
    • S-PLUS
    • Matlab
    • SciPy/NumPy/Matplotlib

  • High Performance Computing

    • MPI
    • Pthreads
    • OpenMP

Awards

  • Schlumberger Graduate Fellowship 2011
  • Best Poster Award, 3DSIG (ISMB satellite conference) 2010
  • Andrew Ladd Memorial Fellowship 2009
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship 2008
  • John and Ellen Tietze Fellowship 2008
  • Janessa Shapiro Award 2007
  • James S. Waters Creativity Award 2007
  • First Place, Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium Poster Contest 2007
  • Outstanding Senior Design Project Award for 2007
  • Outstanding Contributions to Research Award 2007
  • Texas Space Grant Consortium Scholarship Award 2006
  • W.M. Keck Center Undergraduate Research Training Program Fellowship 2005
  • Brown Undergraduate Research Internship Award 2004

Extracurricular Activities

  • The Rice School/La Escuela Rice, First Lego League robotics competition mentor
  • Rice Robotics Club member
  • Computer Science representative to the Graduate Student Association (GSA)
  • GSA representative to the Center for Student Professional Development at Rice
  • Student-run, snack food co-op stock manager (a.k.a. “The Fridge Room”)
  • Lover of squash, tennis, skiing and snowboarding