Loura Costello
I am currently working towards a Master of Science in the Applied Mathematics Program of the University of Massachusetts Lowell with intentions to apply to the Doctor of Science Program of the Computer Science Department in the fall of 2008. I recieved my B.S. in Mathematics with a concentration in Bioinformatics and a minor in Computer Science in May of 2007 with the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
I am currently a research assistant working with the Institute for Visualization and Perception Research (IVPR) and Center for Biomolecular and Medical Informatics (CMBI) under Dr. Georges Grinstein.
Resume (updated 01/15/2008)
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Education: University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Master of Science, Applied Mathematics. Anticipated December 2008
- Bachelor of Science, Mathematics: minor in Computer Science, concentration in Bioinformatics
Technical Skills
- Programming Languages: C, C++, Visual C#, Java, Perl, HTML, CSS
- Software: MS Office, MS Access, Mathematica, Eclipse
- Operating Systems: UNIX/LINUX, Windows Vista/XP/2003, MacOS X
Work Experience
- Research Assistant: Institute for Visualization and Perception Research
(2008 - present)
- Work on grant supported, National Science Foundation, research.
- Support VAST 2008 Challenge in preprocessing data and automating scoring procedures.
- Teaching Assistant: Mathematics Department at UMASS Lowell (2007 - 2008)
- Taught Pre-calculus class during recitation periods and corrected quizzes.
- Tutored material from various undergraduate mathematics classes during open tutoring hours.
Research Assistant: Institute for Visualization and Perception Research
(2006 - 2007) - Worked as a member of a grant supported team analyzing breast cancer risk. Duties included data mining and statistical analysis.
- Created a program to produce Gail Model results to aid in the analysis of breast cancer data.
- Used Inforsense a knowledge discovery environment software package focused on visual programming to create visual workflows of data mining steps.
- Integrated de-identified patient data into current database.
- Work Study: Bioinformatics Department at UMASS Lowell (2003 - 2007)
- Represented the Bioinformatics Department in the perspective student college fair hosted by UMASS Lowell by speaking as the undergraduate student voice.
- Updated and maintained the bioinformatics website
- Reviewed and formatted a visualization text to be published. Provided a students perspective of the material to the author.
- Researched, compilied information, and created various marketing materials for mass distribution. Performed outreach to high-school and college level students.
- Work Study: Faculty Senate at UMASS Lowell (2003 -2007)
- Provided organizational support to Faculty Senate meetings.
- Created and maintained Faculty Senate website.
Leadership and Accomplishments
- Leadership: Demonstrated in the creation, from concept to completion, an "Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research Brochure" currently used by UMASS Lowell.
- Accomplishment: Asked to speak in the 2007 student recruitment reception for the College of Arts and Sciences.
Projects
- Mathematics Project: Created a program to calculate square roots in modular arithmetic.
- Bioinformatics (class) Final Project: Created a BLAST cluster program.