Camilo Valdes
Scholar

Camilo Valdes

Google Scholar ID: Xuy70BEAAAAJ
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Cloud ComputingMachine LearningBioinformaticsMetagenomicsVisualization
Citations & Impact
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Citations
284
 
H-index
5
 
i10-index
4
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
0
 
Resume
Academic Achievements
  • Published a paper titled 'Large Scale Microbiome Profiling in the Cloud', which was accepted by Oxford Bioinformatics and presented as a conference paper at ISMB / ECCB 2019.
Research Experience
  • Involved in multiple projects related to microbiome mapping, DNA sequencing, and cloud computing. For example, developed Jasper software for creating rich, interactive microbiome maps; worked on the Flint project, a metagenomics profiling pipeline built on top of the Apache Spark framework.
Education
  • Pursued a Ph.D. in the Computer Science department at Florida International University (FIU), defended his Ph.D. proposal on March 25, 2019.
Background
  • A computer scientist, researcher, and developer. Focused on research and work.
Miscellany
  • Interested in deep learning, shared experiences on how to upgrade R language versions and use R for data visualization and diagnostic plot creation.