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Sandra L. Batista [email protected] Education: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA AB, Computer Science, cum laude, 1998 Thesis: Content Regulation in the Internet Architecture. University of California, Los Angeles M.S., Computer Science, December 2002 M.S. project: The Complexity of Computing Nash Equilibria Ph.D., Computer Science, September 2009 Thesis Title: Martingales and Complexity Theory Experience: Lecturer, September 2013 ­ present Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Preceptor for COS 323, COS 461, and independent work maker seminar. Visiting Scholar, November 2012 ­ May 2013 Duke University, Durham, NC Host: Sayan Mukherjee, Department of Statistical Science Performing co­expression network analysis on expression data for miRNAs and genes for a metastatic sarcoma data set. Studying methods for placing measures on co­expression networks for small data sets. Postdoctoral Research Associate, May 2010 – September 2012 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Host: Wei Wang, Computer Science Department Performed sample mapping, database management including dbGaP submission, genotyping, and imputation for a large scale human genetics study that includes both genotype and expression data. Conducted gene co­expression network analysis on the study data and other data sets using the Weighted Gene Co­Expression Network Analysis (WGCNA) package in R. Studied efficient SNP indexing algorithms for genome­wide association studies. Full­time Professional: Software developer, April 1999 – May 2000 Time0, Perot Systems, Cambridge, MA Designed and implemented the searching and HTTP­client modules for an information integration platform using Java and XML; for an on­line exchange and marketplace of electronic goods, helped to analyze the business processes, using UML, and design the system architecture. Software developer, July 1998 ­­ March 1999 Bertelsmann, New York, NY Designed and implemented marketing applications in Java (including JDBC) that track user preferences and provide recommendations from a proprietary recommendations engine for an on­line bookstore (http://www.bol.com); developed maintenance applications for user preference data using PL/SQL and PERL. Internships: Research assistant, June 2000 – August 2000 AT&T, Middletown, NJ Attempted to model TCP packets over small­time intervals as a Markov­modulated Poisson process (MMPP) that uses a birth and death model for the number of TCP connections to control its phases; used S­Plus for analysis of TCP traffic traces. Technical Associate, June 1997 ­­ October 1997 Lucent Multimedia Internet Lab, Concord, MA Using a Power PC 604e hardware evaluation setup, logical analyzer, and JTAG debugger evaluated compiler efficiency and CPU implementation efficiency by obtaining language to assembly instruction ratios and assembly instruction to processor instruction ratios for throughput performance analysis of the fast path of a frame relay card. Technical Assistant, June 1996 ­­ August 1996 AT&T Public Policy Research, Murray Hill, NJ Worked on the Project for Internet Content Selection (PICS); created a tool for Windows '95, using Visual C++ that dynamically generates interfaces for PC users to enter PICS ratings for Internet content and to distribute ratings over the Internet. Teaching: Teaching Assistant, Spring 2007, Summer 2006, Winter 2005 University of California, Los Angeles CS 33: Computer Organization, Spring 2007: Introduction to computer architecture and MIPS assembly programming using SPIM: held weekly lectures and office hours; graded projects, assignments, and exams. CS 181: Formal Languages and Automata Theory, Summer 2006: Held weekly lectures and offices hours; prepared homework assignments; graded assignments and exams. CS 31: Introduction to Computer Science 1, Winter 2005: Introduction to programming using C++: held weekly lectures and office hours; helped in the preparation of programming assignments; graded projects, assignments, and exams. Teaching assistant for Computer Networking Course, Spring Term 1998 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Graded assignments and exams; offered assistance to students on assignments and lecture material. Honors and Awards: AT&T Labs Fellowship; AT&T Engineering Scholarship Program; 1997 MIT $50K Entrepreneurial Competition, Third Place. Special Skills: C, C++, Java, SQL, UNIX, UML, XML, R, LaTeX Publications: Elizabeth L. Johnson, David C. Corney, …, Sandra Batista, Hilary Coller. Investigation of the regulation and functional importance of alternative polyadenylation in quiescence reveals a short RECK isoform overexpressed in tumors. Submitted. Vered Madar and Sandra Batista. FastLSU: A more practical approach for the Benjamini­Hochberg FDR controlling procedure for huge­scale testing problems. In preparation. Fred Wright,..., Sandra Batista, …, et al. Heritability and genomics of gene expression in peripheral blood. Nature Genetics 2014, 46:430­437. Rick Jansen, Sandra Batista, Wouter Peyrot, Gonneke Willemsen, Gerard van Grootheest, et al. Sex differences in the human peripheral blood transcriptome. BMC Genomics 2014, 15:33 (17 January 2014). Wei Cheng, Wei Wang, Sandra Batista. Grid­based Clustering, In "Data Clustering: Algorithms and Applications" (Eds: Charu C. Aggarwal, Chandan K. Reddy), Chapter 6, CRC Press, 2013. Sandra Batista. A Note on Spaced Bounded Interactive Proof Systems and Martingales. Manuscript presented at PAuL ’06, Seattle, Washington.