Eric Ma

Greater Boston Area United States

A code crafter, biological analyzer and statistical thinker who loves building great teams.

Education

I am a 5th year PhD candidate in the department of Biological Engineering at MIT. Over the past two years since passing my candidacy exam, I have accumulated a wealth of experience using Python to perform biological data analysis on a wide variety of data types, including immunofluorescent images, flow cytometry, and sequence data. My thesis dissertation is on the analysis of influenza evolution at the genomic and atomic scales. I have deployed network models to show how reassortment may prime the influenza virus to jump across host species barriers (manuscript submitted). Continuing forward, I am building predictive models of influenza evolution. I believe in using open data, open sci...