Mahmudur Hera
Postdoctoral Associate
New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMahmudur Hera is a computational biologist and Postdoctoral Associate with a decade of experience applying core computer science—algorithms, probabilistic analysis, and efficient data pipelines—to large-scale genomic and metagenomic problems. He holds a PhD from Penn State where he developed and theoretically analyzed lightweight sketching methods and scalable tools for managing massive biological datasets. Comfortable writing high-performance code in C/C++, Python, Java and C#, he combines software engineering rigor with mathematical modeling to build predictive models of transcriptional regulation. A former lecturer and mentor, he brings classroom-tested communication and course design skills to collaborative research teams. Notably, his background spans both low-level systems debugging and modern ML techniques, enabling rapid prototyping of theory-driven, production-ready bioinformatics solutions.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Penn State UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Github Skills (23)
minhash10
hypothesis-tests10
bioinformatics9
genomics9
computational-biology8
rust8
sketching8
metagenomics8
python8
containment8
confidence-interval7
indices7
annotate6
explore6
sketch6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
KoslickiLab/sourmash_alternate_implementations
Nov 2024 - Dec 2024
Implement prefetch in cpp to investigate potential speedups
Contributions:39 PRs, 86 pushes, 8 branches in 1 month
mahmudhera/accelarated_sketch_comparison
Jun 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:211 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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