Ismail Uddin BSc, PhD

Data Scientist - Buhler Sortex (London)
January 2019 (current)

Data Scientist at Buhler, working on digitalisation projects in the agri-tech industry.

Buhler manufactures optical sorters for sorting food products such as rice, grains, cereals and nuts.

Data Scientist - Vedra
September - December 2018

Data Scientist at Vedra, a startup developing technologies for SMEs to provide personalised marketing and content experiences on their websites.

• Developed pipelines for providing analytics on client dashboard, including internal Flask-based web apps with visualisations.
• Developed automated pipelines (Airflow / PySpark) for generating PDF reports to provide monthly analytics summaries to clients, using a combination of Python and NodeJS.
• Data engineering tasks such as building Kubernetes ( Python) microservices with gRPC APIs, to provide data access for analytics on client dashboards

Data Science Fellow - Beamly
August 2018

Data science project in a team of 4, part the S2DS data science bootcamp.

• Produced a project proposal to show stakeholders (VP of Marketing Science / Data)
• Developed custom pipelines using Python for data extraction, processing and modelling.
• Produced a high quality presentation with custom graphics, which was commended by CEO

Science 2 Data Science (S2DS) - Pivigo
August 2018

Gained place on highly competitive data science bootcamp course in London.

• Commerical data science project with partner company
• 2-day MBA course provided by BPP University, on finance, economics and project management.

Consultancy project (QConsult)
May - June 2018

5 week consultancy project in a team of 4 PhD students / post-doctorate researchers. Client name protected under NDA.

• Produced a competitor analysis of relevant apps in industry
• Developed a growth hacking strategy for launching the app

MyGipedo
March - December 2017

• Technical co-founder and full stack developer on startup in Cyprus
• Online platform for handling bookings for 5-a-side football pitches
• Handles bookings for 13 pitches across 6 businesses.

Skills

Biotechnology YES business competition finalist
May - Dec 2014

Developed business, enterprise and team work skills, collaborating in team of 5.

Produced a business plan for commercialising fictitious academic research, including market research, route to market, patent acquisition, and seeking VC funding.

Training provided at GSK Stevenage HQ and Stevenage Biocatalyst.

Science Exposure
January 2015 - present

• Launched makers blog with various Raspberry Pi tutorials including Python, Internet of Things projects.
• Developed custom Wordpress theme for blog, using PHP, HTML5 and CSS3 technologies.
• Peak readership at 5,000 views per month, after articles featured on sites such as Adafruit.com and Londonist.com.
• Sponsorship received from Udemy.

2014-18

Ph.D., Computational Biology

Queen Mary University of London

Researching the structure and assembly of protein nanotubes from bacterial microcompartment shell proteins, as a precursor to understanding bacterial microcompartment assembly, using a combination of computational and imaging (e.g. transmission electron microscopy) techniques.

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Developed algorithms for generating and analysing 3D geometric models of protein nanotubes, from atomic coordinates. Written in Python with numpy, pandas and scipy.
Data analysis of large scale atomic simulations run on HPC clusters , involving over 160,000 atoms.

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Publications

I. Uddin, S. Frank, M. J. Warren, R. W. Pickersgill, Small 2018, 14, 1704020.
https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201704020

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Journal impact factor (2017): 8.64

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Research featured on inside front cover of volume 14, issue 19, 2018.

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Photography

Amateur photographer, with extensive experience using DSLR cameras. Skilled in digital post-processing techniques, using Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.

Graphic design

Nearly 10+ years experience in using Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Produced dozens of posters, logo designs, leaflets, and books for a variety of organisations, and societies. Artwork featured on inside front cover of reputable nanotechnology journal, Small.

Web development

Developed Wordpress websites for a number of businessess, including my personal blog (Science Exposure).

Portfolio

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