Ed's Big Plans

Employment

• Software Developer / Analyst — Barcode of Life Datasystems. January 2015 to Present.
• Software Developer (Image Analysis) — School of Environmental Science, University of Guelph. March 2011 to December 2014.

Publications

• Eddie Y. T. Ma, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Stefan C. Kremer (August 2016). Machine Learned Replacement of N-Labels for Basecalled Sequences in DNA Barcoding. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Volume: 15, Issue: 1, Jan.-Feb. 1 2018 (PhD work).
  • ( https://doi.org/10.1109/TCBB.2016.2598752 )
• T. Fatima Mitterboeck, Alexander Y. Chen, Omar A. Zaheer, Eddie Y. T. Ma, Sarah J. Adamowicz (July 2016). Do saline taxa evolve faster? Comparing relative rates of molecular evolution between freshwater and marine eukaryotes. Evolution, 70: 1960-1978 (extracurricular).
  • ( https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13000 )
• Ioana A Taina, Richard J Heck, William Deen, Eddie YT Ma (March 2012). Quantification of freeze-thaw related structure in cultivated topsoils using X-ray computer tomography. Canadian Journal of Soil Science. 21 pages (extracurricular).
  • ( http://dx.doi.org/10.4141/cjss2012-044 )
• Eddie Yee-Tak Ma, Charlie Obimbo (October 2011) An evolutionary computation attack on one-round TEA. In Cihan H. Dagli, editor in chief, Complex Adaptive Systems, Volume 1. Conference Organized by Missouri University of Science and Technology 2011 – Chicago, IL. 6 pages (extracurricular).
  • ( http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2011.08.033 | Conference Presentation )
• Eddie YT Ma, Christopher JF Cameron, Stefan C Kremer (October 2010) Classifying and scoring of molecules with the NGN: new datasets, significance tests, and generalization. BMC Bioinformatics 2010, 11(Suppl 8):S4 (MSc work).
  • ( http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-11-S8-S4 )
• Cameron, C.J.F.; Ma, E.Y.T.; Kremer, S.C.; (May 2010) Neural Grammar Networks for Toxicology. IEEE Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 2010. 8 pages (MSc work).
  • ( http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CIBCB.2010.5510322 )
• Ma, E.Y.T.; Kremer, S.C.; (November 2009) Neural Grammar Networks in QSAR Chemistry. IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine 2009. pp. 37 — 42 (MSc work).
  • ( http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BIBM.2009.60 | Conference Presentation )
• Eddie Y. T. Ma and Stefan C. Kremer (October 2009) Neural Grammar Networks. In Bianchini M., Maggini M., Scarselli F., editors, Innovations in Neural Information Paradigms and Applications. SCI 247: pp. 67 — 96 (MSc work).
  • ( http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04003-0_4 )

Dissertations

• Eddie Ma (February 2018) Correcting Ambiguous Base Labels in DNA Sequencing using Neural Networks and its Impact on DNA Barcoding Applications ( Thesis Link | S3 Project Page | S3 Bioinformatics Analysis Data ).
• Eddie Yee Tak Ma (July 2009) The Neural Grammar Network and its Application to Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship Problems. 134 pages (MSc work) ( Thesis PDF | NGN Project Page ).

Education

• PhD — Applied Computer Science, Jan. 2011 to 2018, University of Guelph, Ontario.
• Graduate Research Assistant — Bioinformatics, Sept. 2009 to Dec. 2010, University of Waterloo, Ontario.
• MSc — Applied Computer Science, August 2009, University of Guelph.
• BSc — Biomedical Science (major), Computer & Information Science (minor). June 2007, University of Guelph.