Askar Gafurov
Assistant Professor at Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave
Bratislava, Region of Bratislava, Slovakia
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Top SchoolAskar Gafurov is an assistant professor and computational biologist with 11 years of experience applying classical statistics and computer science to hard problems in genomics, from telomere detection via integer quadratic programming to wastewater and cell-free DNA analysis with finite mixture models. He blends rigorous theoretical tools—Markov chains, weak dependency mixing, exponential generating functions—with practical software engineering in Python, C++, Snakemake and Java, and a track record of teaching algorithms, programming and bioinformatics. His work spans academic research stints at Comenius University, Penn State and LIRMM, including large-scale genomic rearrangement analysis for antibiotic resistance prediction. Known for translating elegant math into reproducible software and course content, he mentors the next generation of programmers and bioinformaticians while pursuing a PhD in Computer Science.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Organisational Leadership, Organisational Leadership at nexteria.skDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Univerzita Komenského v BratislaveHigh school Mathematics, High school Mathematics at Gymnázium Grösslingová 18, Bratislava
English, Slovak, Russian, French, Czech
Github Skills (49)
kubernetes9
python9
genomics9
phylogenetics8
sequence-alignment8
bioinformatics8
snakemake7
cvs7
protein-structure7
steam6
git-repository6
compatibility5
biopython5
steamworks5
proton4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
japdlsd/templates
Jan 2015 - May 2023
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 8 years 5 months
fmfi-compbio/virpool
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 6 pushes, 3 comments in 5 months
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