alyssa cantu

CV

Education

B.A. Computational Biology

Brown University (2014-2018)

Ph.D. (in progress) Computer Science

Rice University (2022-2027)

Graduate Coursework

Probabilistic Algorithms and Data Structures (Fall 2022), Bioinformatics: Sequence Analysis (Fall 2022), Analysis and Visualization of Biological Data (Spring 2023), Graduate Seminar on Computational Biology (Spring 2023, 2024), Genome-scale Algorithms and Data Structures (Fall 2023), Pedagogy for Computer Science (Spring 2024)

TA Experience

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Practical Machine Learning for Real World Applications (Fall 2023), Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Spring 2024)

Work Experience

Graduate Fellow

Rice University (2022-2027)

Computational Biologist

Texas Advanced Computing Center (2019–2022)

Research Experience

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow

Mayo Clinic (2017)

Research Assistant

HHMI SEA-PHAGES Program at Brown University (2014-2015)