Fatemeh Vafaee
The University of Sydney Australia
Biography
Fatemeh Vafaee received her Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, where she learned the foundations of computer science on different topics, including the theory of computation, algorithms and data structures, artificial intelligence and information retrieval. She was then admitted, as a direct PhD student, to the computer science program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. As a researcher in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, she had the opportunity to extend and enrich her knowledge in the context of Artificial Intelligence. She got involved in various research projects, and developed and applied different AI techniques, particularly in the domains of optimization, machine learning, data mining, and pattern recognition. She also collaborated with the university’s Computational Biology Laboratory, where she extended her research to biological applications such as protein-protein interaction network comparison, sequence alignment, phylogeny reconstruction, motif discovery, and the study of models of DNA evolution. After receiving her PhD degree, Fatemeh joined the University of Toronto, University Health Network and Ontario Cancer Institute, one of the largest medical research centres in Canada and worldwide. During her Postdoctoral research, she focused her research on integrative computational biology and cancer biomarker identification. She collaborated on several projects, and expanded her biological knowledge to effectively utilize and analyse different genomic, proteomic, molecular chemicals and interaction databasesto get new insights into disease diagnosis, therapy, and prevention strategies. She then joined the University of Sydney, Charles Perkins Centre as a research fellow in computational modelling and systems biology.
Abstract
Abstract : Analysis of long non-coding RNAs expression profiles in ovarian cancer-associated fibroblasts
