Two versions depending on what you’re after: The full academic record, or a focused industry résumé. Everything is also below, and detailed project write-ups are on my Research page.
Academic CV ↓Research, publications, teaching & service
Industry Résumé ↓Focused computational & ML summary
Education #
Ph.D., Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Expected Apr 2027
University of Pittsburgh — Durrant Lab
Structure-based drug discovery, ML training datasets, and model evaluation grounded in experimental data. Advisor: Dr. Jacob D. Durrant.
B.S., Computational Biology & Genomics (Biomedical Sciences)
2017–2021
Zewail City of Science and Technology
Graduated Cum Laude; Provost’s Honors Roll. Research focus: computational genomics, bioinformatics, and machine learning for drug-response prediction.
Undergraduate thesis under Dr. Eman Badr: Investigating the correlation between molecular variations within Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) patients and drug sensitivity.
Research Experience #
Graduate Student Researcher
Sep 2021 – Present
University of Pittsburgh — Department of Biological Sciences
Dissertation research in the Durrant Lab (joined Summer 2022, after rotations in the VanDemark, Durrant, and Levin Labs) on ML training data and model evaluation for structure-based drug design. Projects: LIGNOVA · reqadence · ML scoring evaluation · explicit-water docking benchmark · arginine-sensor reverse screen (O’Donnell Lab) · Dictyostelium genomics (Levin Lab, PNAS 2025) · MolModa (NAR 2024) · MD review (BMC Biology 2023).
Undergraduate Student Researcher
Jun 2020 – Apr 2021
Zewail City of Science and Technology — Dr. Eman Badr
Thesis research predicting AML drug sensitivity from patient RNA-seq with Random Forests. Details.
Summer Intern
Jun 2020 – Dec 2020
Zewail City of Science and Technology
Variant interpretation and pathway enrichment for an Alzheimer’s disease GWAS study. Details.
Research Intern
2019 – 2020
Lumiere concentration-detection project
Collected and analyzed EEG and facial-expression data for a concentration-detection project.
Teaching & Mentoring #
Graduate Teaching Assistant & Fellow, Biochemistry
Spring 2024, Fall 2025
University of Pittsburgh — Department of Biological Sciences
Led recitations and weekly office hours for ~200 students and mentored 15 undergraduate teaching assistants. Nominated by students for the Elizabeth Baranger Excellence in Teaching Award (2024 & 2026).
Undergraduate Research Mentor, TECBio REU
May – Jul 2024
University of Pittsburgh — Department of Computational & Systems Biology
Co-mentored an undergraduate on a 10-week project applying AlphaFold2 to explore HIV protease conformations for drug design, and supervised the resulting research poster, presented at the Research Symposium at Duquesne University.
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Python
Sep 2020 – Jan 2021
Zewail City of Science and Technology
Guided students in writing and debugging Python code; held weekly office hours.
Awards & Honors #
NSF ACCESS Allocation (BIO260240)
2026
Competitive national computing allocation (Purdue Anvil + TAMU ACES) awarded to scale the LIGNOVA pipeline.
GPSG Travel Grant
2026
University of Pittsburgh — Graduate & Professional Student Government, for presenting at the Computational Medicinal Chemistry School conference.
Elizabeth Baranger Excellence in Teaching Award — nominated
2024 & 2026
University of Pittsburgh — A&S Graduate Student Organization, recognizing excellence in graduate-student teaching across Arts & Sciences; awardees are nominated by their undergraduate students. Nominated for teaching Biochemistry.
Provost’s Honors Roll
2021
Zewail City of Science and Technology, recognizing the top 5 students by cumulative GPA. Spring 2021.
Cum Laude
2021
Zewail City of Science and Technology, B.S. in Computational Biology & Genomics.
Zewail City Merit Scholarship (90%)
2017–2021
Four-year undergraduate merit scholarship, awarded for academic excellence.
Leadership & Service #
Department of Biological Sciences Representative
Aug 2024 – Sep 2026
University of Pittsburgh — Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Organization
Represented Biological Sciences at school-wide GSO meetings and coordinated with the executive board on events, policy, and decision-making. Served on the Summer Research Grant panel, evaluating graduate research proposals across Arts & Sciences departments.
Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DIB) Committee Member
Sep 2023 – Dec 2024
University of Pittsburgh — Biological Sciences Graduate Student Organization
Helped foster an inclusive environment for underrepresented students in the department by organizing intercultural celebrations and distributing resources on the department’s diverse cultural traditions.
Vice President
Jan 2018 – Mar 2020
Zewail City OpenCourseWare
Led a team making university course materials (lecture notes, videos, assignments) freely available online for Egyptian students. Selected courses to document each semester, coordinated sub-teams, and contributed LaTeX-typeset lecture notes and solutions.
Head of Strategy Committee
Jan 2017 – Sep 2017
Bio Team Egypt
Managed 3 subcommittees (Events, Awareness Campaigns, Charities), organized 3 biotechnology seminars, and coordinated 4 public awareness campaigns introducing biotechnology to high school students across Egypt.
Conferences & Talks #
Posters and seminar talks are listed on my Publications page.