Santiago Castro Dau

I recently completed my master’s in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at ETH Zürich and I am currently working at the Food Systems Biotechnology group as a software engineer. My work in this group consist mainly of developing and integrating bioinfomratics tools for metagenome analysis with Qiime2.

Previous to my master studies I obtained a bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering form the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Since then I have had the pleasure of working in a variety of research projects and institutes in Switzerland and Mexico, including:

• 🔬 AI for Single Cell Research group at IBM Research Zürich,
• 🧠 Cortical Computation group at Institute of Neuroinformatics
• 🐒 Computational Evolution group at ETH Zurich
• 🧬 Computational Genomics group at the National Institute of Genomic Medicine

My most recent project was my master thesis which I completed at IBM Research Zürich under the supervision of Marianna Rapsomaniki, Pushpak Pati and Adriano Martinalli. In this project, I developed a novel Machine Learning algorithm to do metadata prediction on cancer tissue images using graph representation learning. You can find out more about the project here.

My research interests lie in the intersection of medical research, computer science, and mathematical modeling. I am passionate about science and figuring out how life works! More concretely I’m interested in uncovering how complex cellular systems produce observable phenotypes. My wish is to develop new mathematical models that allow us to mimic the complex behavior of these systems, and propose new hypotheses that can be tested in the lab.

Contact:

• 📨 LinkedIn
• 📨 sanntiago5[at]gmail[dot]com