Master of Science, Computer Science

Graduate work across software systems and algorithms — object-oriented modeling and development, computer systems, programming language concepts, design and analysis of algorithms, network programming — and, running alongside it, a scientific computing track: proteomics, neural networks and machine learning, cognitive science, an introduction to computational scientific discovery, and a research practicum in computational biology.

The scientific computing track began with the proteomics course. The project there was a persistence layer for Gene Designer, a component of the Illinois Bio-Grid Protein Desktop that produces DNA sequences coding for a given amino acid sequence. Researchers could save a run's input parameters, export them, and exchange them with each other, so that a run could be reproduced. David Sigfredo AnguloDADavid Sigfredo AnguloGrid-computing researcher who ran the Illinois Bio-Grid and taught computer science at DePaul; earlier on the Globus work at the University of Chicago, later a data architect in industry.LinkedIn ↗, who ran the Bio-Grid work at DePaul, was among its stakeholders, and supervised the master's research that followed.

Research

Two courses of graduate research with Mark WestneatMark WestneatProfessor of organismal biology and anatomy at the University of Chicago, working on the evolution and biomechanics of fishes. Formerly chair of zoology and director of the Biodiversity Synthesis Center at the Field Museum.LinkedIn ↗, then Associate Curator of Zoology at the Field Museum of Natural History: a practicum in computational biology in 2006, then the computer science research option through 2008, advised by David AnguloDADavid Sigfredo AnguloGrid-computing researcher who ran the Illinois Bio-Grid and taught computer science at DePaul; earlier on the Globus work at the University of Chicago, later a data architect in industry.LinkedIn ↗ and Joseph PhillipsJoseph PhillipsComputer scientist at DePaul University working on computational scientific discovery: algorithms and systems that help scientists understand, compute with, and extend scientific models. Ph.D. in AI from Michigan; earlier a chemist and a programmer at Lawrence Livermore.DePaul faculty page ↗. Both were the Java desktop version of Westneat's phylogenetic analysis application JackTaxa, and the writeup that went with it.