Ahmed Quadeer
Senior Research Fellow at University of Melbourne
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, Australia
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Top SchoolAhmed Quadeer is a computational biologist and Senior Research Fellow with nine years of research experience bridging electrical engineering, statistical signal processing, and genomics. He develops high-dimensional statistical and machine learning methods to analyze viral genomes (HIV, HCV, poliovirus) for evolutionary insights and actionable vulnerabilities that inform vaccine and drug design. Trained with a PhD in Electronics and Computer Engineering and a background in signal processing, he brings rigorous quantitative approaches to biological problems rarely found in traditional bioinformatics teams. Based in Hong Kong and recently appointed at the University of Melbourne, he combines academic depth with practical impact across multidisciplinary collaborations. An early career lecturer and industry engineer, he pairs teaching and applied engineering experience with cutting-edge computational virology.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Electrical Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum & MineralsBachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronics, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronics at NED University of Engineering and TechnologyHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Urdu, English, Arabic
Github Skills (9)
matlab10
pymol7
visualization4
foundation4
python4
bioinformatics3
portal2
discovery2
genomics2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ahmedaq/RoCA
Apr 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes in 5 months
ahmedaq/Making-elegant-Matlab-figures
Apr 2018 - Dec 2019
A repository comprising multiple functions for making elegant publication-quality figures in MATLAB
Contributions:2 releases, 100 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 8 months
qualitymatlabfigures
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