Ed's Big Plans

Professional

I am a student at the University of Guelph, Canada. I’m in my second year of study toward a PhD at the School of Computer Science (SoCS). My thesis project is an application of deep belief networks and support vector machines as a means to predict and correct error at the very last step of base-calling in the Sanger sequencer pipeline (I’m building an assistant for human experts so they can spend fewer hours doing tedious DNA sequence cleaning). I’m fortunate that my research is supported by DNA barcode data curated at the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario / Barcode of Life Datasystems. I find part-time employment at the School of Environmental Science as a Java developer for soil CT-scan analysis and person at which math is thrown. I’m currently elected as a Graduate Student Association general director for SoCS (and am on the ITSAC which is a committee that reports the happenings of Computing & Communication Services to respective constituents). I’m currently appointed as a graduate student representative for the SoCS council. I have been a TA at Guelph for Discrete Math as well as for Introduction to the Microbial World and Analytical Methods in Molecular Biology in the Department of Biology at the University of Waterloo.

Meta

Ed’s Big Plans is a chronological showcase of what I deem to be the best, most interesting, most consumable pieces of work that I have created. I have posted upon epiphanies mild and strong, particularly excellent pieces of course work and teacher assistantship, solutions to problems that should be well-known rather than obscure, fragments of thesis, presentations, publications, and proceedings. It is my hope that this blog contributes to the knowledge content of the internet.

• CogFault is a blog where I describe my brain’s marvellous propensity for error — in particular, mathematical and programming mistakes — and their solutions are described. This log serves as a reference and repository of cautionary tales to others bumping into the same problems.
• SnOwy is my wiki notebook — it contains notes about real life, courses I’ve taken, meetings and presentations I’ve attended, and code scraps — it’s my indexed, searchable notebook. This wiki can be thought of as a place where incomplete blog articles go to sleep.

Contact

Feel free to contact me if you have technical or editorial, questions or comments.

• E-Mail / GTalk / MSN: 
• Skype / Jabber: edoules

The below form is also available.