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Soma Mbadiwe

Software Engineer; CS PhD Student

West Virginia University

Hi there!

I'm Soma, currently pursuing a PhD program in Computer Science at the LANE Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University. My current research with Dr. Donald Adjeroh focuses on developing tools and techniques for bioinformatics and biometric applications using statistical and deep learning approaches. I have worked briefly as a software developer and architect, and have industry experience building solutions in finance, logistics, education and entertainment sectors.

Interests

  • Bioinformatics & Biometrics
  • Software Architecture
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Retrieval

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, On-going

    West Virginia University

  • MS in Computer Science & Software Eng., 2017

    University of Washington

  • BSc in Systems Engineering, 2011

    University of Lagos

Skills

Python

C#/.NET

Javascript

R

HTML5

Java


Other relevant languages, tools and libraries include SQL, MATLAB, Tensorflow/Keras, PyTorch, etc.

Experience

On Software Development / Engineering

 
 
 
 
 

Software Developer & Architect

Raoatech Limited

Jun 2015 – Present Lagos (Contract; as needed)
 
 
 
 
 

Software Developer, Group Head

Appzone Group

Mar 2013 – Aug 2015 Lagos

Teaching & Research

Spring 2019 - present
Morgantown WV, USA

Research Assistant

West Virginia University

Fall 2018
Morgantown WV, USA

Instructor: CS101 - Intro to Computer Applications

West Virginia University

Fall 2016 - Winter 2017
Bothell WA, USA

Research Assistant

University of Washington

Recent Publications

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S. Mbadiwe, J. Dawson, D. Adjeroh . Proximity Search Method for Mining Biomedical and Genomic Information. IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2019.

S. Mbadiwe, J. Dawson, D. Adjeroh . FaceSNPs: Identifying Face-Related SNPs from the Human Genome. IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2019.

T. Huynh, S. Mbadiwe, W. Kim . NemoMap : Improved Motif-centric Network Motif Discovery Algorithm. Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems (ASTES) Journal, 2018.

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S. Mbadiwe, W. Kim . ParaMODA: Improving Motif-Centric Subgraph Pattern Search in PPI Networks. IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2017.

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Recent Posts

COVID-19: CS Lewis Has Some Words For Us

All over the world, the Wuhan Virus (COVID-19) has upended life as we know it. The The “social distancing” being …
Soma Mbadiwe
Mar 15, 2020 3 min read Life

Blog Posts

Check out the link to posts on software development, bioinformatics and other topics that I found time to write about.

Recent & Upcoming Talks

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Autoencoder and Rate Distortion Theory
Dec 12, 2019 12:30 PM West Virginia University
FaceSNPs - Identifying Face-Related SNPs from the Human Genome
Nov 19, 2019 12:30 PM IEEE Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)
Proximity Search Method for Mining Biomedical and Genomic Information
Nov 18, 2019 12:30 PM IEEE Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)

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