While pursuing my doctorate at Wayne State, I have worked as a research assistant at Wayne State's Intelligent Systems and Bioinformatics Laboratory. From 2004 to 2009 I gained extensive experience in data mining and statistical analysis. Specifically, I have developed a method for the discovery of novel functional annotations for genes. The method applies latent semantic indexing and vector space model weighting schemes to currently known gene -function relationships. At ISBL I have also worked on fast sequence alignment algorithms. From 2009 and during my postoctoral training I have developed a student monitoring software package called MAPS (Mapping Academic PathwayS) for the evaluation of the academic programs offered by Wayne State University. MAPS uses the ability to track students along various academic pathways to assess the effectiveness of the curriculum, identify the factors that affect graduation and retention, and improve the admission and credit transfer protocols. MAPS is currently available to WSU faculty and administrators and was successfully used to change the admission and transfer credit policies, the prerequisite classes structure etc. In 2011 I have been employed by Advaita Corporation as a Bioinformatics scientist and software developer. In this position I have worked on problems related to the analysis of large molecular datasets, such as microarray data and genomic sequence data, for clinical and research purposes. I have recommended new computational strategies, customized existing applications and developed new software for use in activities such as gene expression profiling, genome annotation and structural bioinformatics.