Email: ladan.doroud@gmail.com
Address: San Francisco, CA
I am a data scientist at color.com since January 2020. My main focus in the past couple years has been on R&D as well as development of polygenic risk scores as a preventive measure for individuals from diverse populations. Prior to color, I was a staff scientist at Ancestry.com where I worked in the DNA Science team on projects involving big data and computational biology. Before I got introduced to population genetics, I was a PhD student in Computer Science at University of California, Davis where I worked with Prof. Jonathan Eisen at UC Davis Genome Center and focused on microbial interactions as a graph problem. Recently, I am more interested in human genetics and phenotype associations, algorithm development, big data and microbiome!
Programming Languages: Python, Bash, AWK, SQL Machine Learning: Scikit-learn, Tensorflow (keras) Analytics: ETL, SQL, Django, dbt, Google BigQuery, Metabase
Big Data: Hadoop and Map Reduce, Spark Computing: Amazon AWS, HPC, Slurm, Git, Jupyter
Designing and implementing novel approaches toward community detection and function prediction for large-scale networks of protein sequences
Teaching assistant for California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science at UC Davis, Responsible for teaching computer programming in robotics
     Major: PhD: Computer Science
     Major: Masters: Computer Science
     Major: Bachelors: Computer Science
[White Paper]: Genome-wide Polygenic Score Download PDF
[Paper]: Holly H. Ganz (joint first author), Ladan Doroud (joint first author), Alana J. Firl, Sarah M. Hird, Jonathan A. Eisen, Walter M. Boyce. "Community-level differences in the microbiome of healthy wild mallards and those infected by influenza A viruses". (2017) Download PDF
[Paper]: Katherine Dahlhausen, Ladan Doroud, Alana Firl, Adam Polkinghorne, Jonathan Eisen "Characterization and Temporal Shifts of Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) Gut Microbial Communities Associated with Antibiotic Treatment". (2017) Download PDF
[Paper]: Ashley Vater , Vivian Agbonavbare , Dylan Carlin , Griselda Carruthers , Adam Chac , Ladan Doroud , Samuel Farris , Melanya Gudzeva , Guillaume Jospin , John Kitner , Jonathon Knauss , Yi Lor , Randi Pechacek , Eden Rohner , Sierra Simmons , Mayya Verescshagina , Christian Wirawan , Leonel Zagal "Draft Genome Sequences of Shewanella sp. UCD-FRSP16_17 and 9 Vibrio Strains Isolated from Abalone Feces" (2016) Download PDF
[Paper]: Dongying Wu, Ladan Doroud, and Jonathan A. Eisen. "TreeOTU: Operational Taxonomic Unit Classification Based on Phylogenetic Trees." arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.6333 (2013). PDF in arXiv.org
[Technical Book Review]: Review of the book "Mastering Gephi Network Visualisation", Packt Publishing (2014) Link to the book
[Poster]: Ladan Doroud, Jonathan A.Eisen. "Use of Extreme Sets as a Tool in Making Predictions of Protein Function from Sequence" CRA-Women Graduate Cohort Workshop (2014)
Patent: Community assignments in identity by descent networks and genetic variant origination
Google Code Jam: Won Google Code Jam to I/O 2016 contest (for Women)
Fellowship: Insight Data Science Fellows Program - 2016
Fellowship: Graduate Research Fellowship - 2015
Certificate: Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, UC Davis Awarded certificate in Learner-Centered Teaching: Designing Courses, Activities, and Assessments to Enhance Student Learning - 2013