Abdurrahman Elbasir
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Wistar Institute
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolAbdurrahman Elbasir is a postdoctoral research fellow at The Wistar Institute with nine years of experience applying deep learning and AI to life-science problems, particularly cancer. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Hamad Bin Khalifa University and an M.Sc. from The George Washington University, combining strong academic training with hands-on research across academia and industry. His background spans roles from data analyst and database developer to visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, giving him a rare mix of systems-level engineering and computational biology expertise. At Wistar he translates advanced algorithms into experimental workflows, while earlier work at HBKU focused on bridging ML methods with biomedical applications. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic researcher who pairs rigorous modeling with attention to experimental constraints, and he often leverages software engineering skills honed teaching and developing systems in diverse settings. Based in Philadelphia, he is driven by turning AI into actionable insights for complex diseases.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of TripoliDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Hamad Bin Khalifa UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at The George Washington University
Arabic, English
Github Skills (19)
graph-neural-network10
geometric-deep-learning9
pytorch9
deep-learning9
graph-convolutional-networks9
sequence9
genome8
python8
gpu8
machine-learning8
encoder7
numpy7
neural-network6
tensor6
gpu-acceleration5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
elbasir/DeepCrystal
Jul 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:82 commits, 103 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
elbasir/BCrystal
Aug 2019 - Aug 2020
BCrystal: An Interpretable Sequence-Based Protein Crystallization Predictor
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 year
sequencebioinformaticspredictorinterpretableprotein
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