Timofey Prodanov, Ph.D.

Hi! I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and University Hospital of Düsseldorf. Primarily, I develop and apply algorithms for bioinformats, primarily for short and long read sequencing data around structurally variable and/or duplicated regions in the human genome. Please, write me if you are interested in collaboration or have any other questions.

Interests

• Structural Variations
• Computational Genomics
• Algorithm Design
• Statistics
• Data Visualization

Work and Education

2022 — Present  |  Postdoctoral Fellow
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany &
University Hospital of Düsseldorf, Germany.

2017 — 2022  |  Ph.D.  in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
University of California, San Diego, USA. [Doctoral Thesis]

2015 — 2017  |  Honours M.Sc.  in Algorithmic Bioinformatics
St. Petersburg Academic University, Russia.

2016  |  Junior Researcher
Center for Algorithmic Biotechnology, St. Petersburg, Russia.

2015 — 2017  |  Diploma  in Computational Biology
Bioinformatics Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia.

2011 — 2015  |  B.Sc.  in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
St. Petersburg University, Russia.

2013 — 2014  |  Software Engineer
Hydrometeorological University, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Skills

• Python, Rust, R, C++, C#, Bash, Zsh, Awk.
• Git, Conda, Docker, Singularity, Snakemake, Nextflow, LaTeX.
• Stochastic optimization, (Mixed-)Integer Linear Programming, Hidden Markov Models, EM-algorithms, maximum likelihood optimization, tree and graph structures