Diego Kleiman
PHD Graduate Student
Urbana, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDiego Kleiman is a PhD candidate in Biophysics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who applies computational and machine-learning methods to uncover the physical principles governing biological systems. With nine years of research experience beginning from undergraduate projects at NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Tandon, he has published in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation and presented at ACS meetings. He combines a strong foundation in physics and computer science with practical skills in Python, C++, data analysis, and visualization, and has pursued advanced coursework in neural networks and deep learning. Diego’s work bridges theory and computation, turning complex biophysical questions into reproducible code and interpretable models. He was recognized for academic excellence with NYUAD’s Founders' Day Award, reflecting both scholarly rigor and cross-disciplinary curiosity.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at New York University Abu DhabiDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biophysics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (9)
bioinformatics6
clustering5
simulation5
machine-learning4
classification4
deep-learning3
protein-structure3
image-classification2
tensorflow2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ImageGravity/Coral_dataset
Jun 2018 - Aug 2020
CNN for coral image classification
Contributions:6 PRs, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
coraldeep-learningmachine-learningimage-classificationtensorflow
ShuklaGroup/MA_REAP
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:19 commits, 14 pushes in 8 months
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