Michael Shamash
Doctoral Research at McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Shamash is a PhD candidate in Microbiology and Immunology at McGill University whose work bridges bioinformatics, wet-lab microbiology, and sequencing technology to study the active role of bacteriophages in the infant gut. With 11 years of experience, he designs and runs end-to-end ONT and Illumina workflows, builds scalable Bash/R pipelines on HPC for terabytes of metagenomic data, and applies multivariate statistics and machine learning to identify microbial biomarkers. He has practical lab expertise in germ-free/humanized mouse studies and has set up an in-house Nanopore platform, while also training and supervising undergraduate researchers. A proven communicator and fundraiser, he has secured over $350K CAD in competitive grants, presented at 20 conferences (winning multiple awards), and translated microbiome science to public audiences. His background in iOS app development hints at a versatile engineering mindset that informs his data-centric approach to biological questions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Collegial Studies Health Sciences, Diploma of Collegial Studies Health Sciences at Marianopolis CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Microbiology and Immunology at McGill University
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (162)
deep-learning10
tflite10
genomics10
yolov510
onnx10
ml10
yolov810
signalr-client10
object-detection10
sequencing10
ultralytics10
pytorch10
ios10
machine-learning10
coreml10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mshamash/OnePetri
Jul 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:5 releases, 79 commits, 33 pushes in 9 months
mshamash/OnePetri-benchmark
Jul 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes in 8 months
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