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2012 -2015 Postdoctoral Scholar. Center for Theoretical Biological Physics. Rice University

2010 - Postdoctoral Scholar. Center for Theoretical Biological Physics. UCSD

2010 Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering University of Notre Dame.

2010 M.S. in Applied Mathematics. Department of Mathematics. University of Notre Dame

2004 M.S. in Communications Engineering. Technische Universitat Munchen.

2001 B.S. Electronics and Communications Engineering. ITESM Campus Monterrey

Research interests in Statistical Learning, Information Theory, Network Science, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and Systems Biology. Particularly, in the field of protein networks, including prediction of protein and domain interactions for diverse organisms.

Research

Interests

Awards

Experience

2010 Research Excellence Award CSE Department, University of Notre Dame

2008 Kaneb Center Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award for Excellence in Teaching

2005 Kellog Fellowship for Graduate Studies at CSE department at ND given by the Kellogg Institute.

2002 Werner von Siemens Excellence Award. Scholar of Siemens AG (2002-2004)

2001 Graduated with Honors at ITESM ( Electronics and Communications Engineering )

July 2010 - 2015 Postoctoral Scholar. Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP),

University of California, San Diego and Rice University .

Aug 2005- May 2010 Research Assistant in CSE Department, University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Member of Interdiscipinary Center for Network Science and Applications (iCeNSA).

Oct-Nov 2007 Research visitor in the laboratory of Prof. Dale Kaiser. Departments of

Biochemistry and Developmental Biology. Stanford University.

Nov 2004 - May 2005 Research Engineer. Digital Rights Management in wireless networks,

Institute for Data Processing (LDV). TUM-Siemens joint project. Munich, Germany.

Aug-Oct 2003 Internship Siemens AG. Corporate Technology Department. Frequency

Response Analysis of a Railway Wheel. BMBF project: Intelligenter

Radsatz 2000 plus/ IntRas. Munich, Germany.

Jan-Sept 2002 Engineer. Working as engineer in the Integrated Systems Center

for Manufacturing at ITESM. Monterrey, Mexico.

Languages

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Spanish (native)

English (fluent)

German (advanced)

Software

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Project: DCA software/Server. An implementation of the DCA algorithm is available at

http://dca.rice.edu. A public web service of to compute direct coupling in sequence data is

coming soon.

Project: Cytoprophet. Developed a Cytoscape plug-in to infer molecular interactions based on experimental data available in biological online databases. Version 1.0 available at

http://cytoprophet.cse.nd.edu

Project: 3D Network Viewer. A java interactive tool for visualization of networks in 3D space. Used to represent Fibrin networks observed in experiments and any other biological or social networks in 3D space. Output can be used in 3D Hardware with appropriate 3D glasses.

Instructor. Teaching computer science department class CSE 20232: C/C++ Programming. University of Notre Dame. Fall 2009.

Advisor of undergraduate research projects for the Laboratory for Computational Life Siences in the CSE department at the University of Notre Dame. 2007-2009

Teaching Assistant. Ethics and Professional Issues in Computing. Spring 2009.

Teaching Assistant. Graduate Networks. University of Notre Dame. Spring 2007.

Laboratory Tutor. Master of Science course: Image and Video Compression Lab. TUM. Summer Semester 2004/ Winter Semester 2005.

Teaching Experience

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[Curriculum Vitae]

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Publications

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Assistant Professor | faruckm@utdallas.edu

Department of Biological Sciences

University of Texas at Dallas