Uwaise Ibna Islam
University of Florida, United States.
6200 Malachowsky Hall
1889 Museum Rd
Gainesville, FL, 32606
Computer and Information Science PhD student at the University of Florida. I work under the supervision of Dr. Christina Boucher with a research concentration in Bioinformatics. My primary research focus is on building scalable algorithms for population genomics. Previously, as a research assistant in Dr. Raquel Assis’s lab at Florida Atlantic University, I developed a machine learning framework for studying cross-species genotype-phenotype associations. I like to play soccer and travel when I’m not busy with work.
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selected publications
- Brief.Bio.Learning genotype–phenotype associations from gaps in multi-species sequence alignmentsBriefings in Bioinformatics, 2025
- Under Rev.Scalable PBWT Queries with Minimum-Length SMEM ConstraintsbioRxiv, 2025
- Ann.Data.SciA machine learning model for predicting individual substance abuse with associated risk-factorsAnnals of Data Science, 2023