CURRICULUM VITAE NAME: Bilal Wajid CURRENT POSITION TITLE: Mr. Visiting Faculty, Dept. of, Mathematics and Physics EDUCATION INSTITUTION DEGREE YEAR FIELD OF STUDY Texas A& M University (TAMU), College Station, Expected Ph.D., TX, 77840, USA. Graduation Aug. 15 University of & Technology (UET), Lahore, Pakistan. University of & Technology (UET), Lahore, Pakistan. M.Sc., B.Sc. (Hon s), Course work completed. Thesis defense remains. Dec. 06 A. Academic/Professional Positions: Lecturer 1. Texas A&M International University (TAMIU), Laredo, TX, USA. Dept. of, Mathematics and Physics. Sep. 14-Dec. 14 Taught four courses: 1. ENGR 1201-102 & 1201-105, Foundations of (Fall 14). This course introduces various engineering disciplines and aims to develop necessary skills for solving problems including but not limited to, numbers, units, graphs and error calculation; drawing and design using CAD tools. Students are intended to work in teams on an engineering design project, including construction, testing and reporting. 2. ENGR 1204-101, Graphics (Fall 14). This course provides fundamentals of 2D construction, sketching, and orthographical, sectional and auxiliary drawings. Further topics include 3D construction and modelling. Computer aided design software is used for drawing and development of systems in mechanical, electrical and welding applications. 3. ENGR 2303-102, Mechanics Statics and Dynamics (Fall 14). This course provides fundamental principles of Newtonian mechanics to the statics and dynamics of particles. It elaborates on equilibrium of trusses, frames, beams and other rigid bodies. Dynamics of moving particles, including friction, torque, impulse, and momentum are also discussed. 4. COSC 1336-161, Fundamentals of Programming (Fall 14). This course provides fundamentals of high-level programming language. Course presents principles of primitive data types, variable declarations and primitive operations, control statements, functions, arrays, and strings,
output formatting and debugging techniques. The course is intended for students with no prior programming experience. 1. DUKE University, USA, DUKE TIP program. June. 13-Jul. 13 Fundamentals (Summer 13). Course presented a series of eight hands-on laboratories, two mini-design projects and one intensive, week-long, team-based Integrated Design Challenge (IDC). The final IDC project presented a problem for which students had to develop a solution using coordinated robotic platforms. The course was taught to highly-gifted individuals. 2. Texas A&M University (TAMU), College Stations, USA. Dept. of ECE ECEN 303-502, Random Signals and Systems (Spring 13). Course presented concepts of probability and random variables necessary for study of signals and systems involving uncertainty; applications to elementary problems in detection, signal processing and communication. Prepared necessary documentation for ABET accreditation. Jan. 13-May. 13 3. University of and Technology (UET), KSK, Pakistan. EE-130, Computer Fundamentals (Spring 12). Course presented principles of primitive data types, variable declarations and primitive operations, control statements, functions, arrays, and strings, output formatting and debugging techniques. The course was designed for students with no prior programming experience Jan. 12-Jun. 12 4. UET, Lahore, Pakistan. Aug. 11-Dec. 11 Taught two courses:- 5. CE-360 Data structures (Fall 11). Course presented students a solid understanding of the design and analysis of fundamental data structures and algorithms. Special emphasis was placed on programming and handson experience that helped reinforce theoretical concepts covered in lectures. 6. EE-301 Electromagnetic Theory (Fall 11). Course presented principles of electromagnetic field theory, Lorentz Force Law, Divergence and Curl, Magnetic Vector Potential, field of a Magnetized Object, Electromotive Force, Electromagnetic Induction and Maxwell s Equations. 5. UET, Lahore, Pakistan. EE-130, Computer Fundamentals (Fall 08). Course presented principles of primitive data types, variable declarations and primitive operations, control statements, functions, arrays, and strings, output formatting and debugging Aug. 08-Dec. 08
techniques. The course was designed for students with no prior programming experience. 6. UET, Lahore, Pakistan. Jan. 08-Jun. 08 EE-455, Computer Architecture (Spring 08). Course presented principles for designing a single processor computer, including processor datapath, processor control, pipelining optimization, instruction level parallelism, cache and memory systems, and I/O systems. Also discussed was how to quantitatively measure computer performance and design changes of singlecycle/multi-cycle datapath and control units according to specification of instruction sets and pipelining hazards. Research Assistant 1. TAMU, College Station, USA. Gastrointestinal Laboratory, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences. May. 14-Current 2. TAMU, College Station, USA. Genomic Signal Processing (GSP) Research Group. Sep. 12-Dec. 12 3. TAMU, College Station, USA. GSP Research Group. Aug. 09- Jun. 11 Research Assistant for Prof. Dr. Jan S. Suchodolski. Working on models that incorporate a systems biology approach to understand the role of microbiota and metabolites in inflammatory bowel disease. Research Assistant for Prof. Dr. Erchin Serpedin. Developed and tested Minimum Description Length, de Bruijn graph and Bayesian estimation based genome assembly pipeline called MiB. Research Assistant for Prof. Dr. Erchin Serpedin. Developed and tested Information Theoretic and Statistical frameworks for Comparative Genome Assembly Pipeline. 4. TAMU, College Station, USA. Sacchettini Research Group. Jun. 09-Sep. 09 Research Assistant for Prof. Dr. Thomas Ioerger. Developed Gibbs Sampling and Bayesian framework based SNPs detection and correction for novel genomes when compared with reference genomes. Teaching Assistant 1. TAMU, College Station, USA. Dept. of ECE., Aug. 13-May. 14 ECEN 314, Signal and Systems (Fall 2013). ECEN 403, Capstone Design Lab 1 (Spring 2014). ENGR 111, Foundations of ENGR I (Spring 2014). 2. UET, Lahore, Pakistan. EE-410 Power Electronics (Fall 07).
Aug. 08-Dec. 08 2. UET, Lahore, Pakistan. EE-250 Analog Electronic Circuits (Spring 07). Jan. 08-Jul. 08 B. Peer Reviewed Publications (past five years) Journals accepted 1. B. Wajid, E. Serpedin, Do it yourself guide to Genome Assembly, Briefings in Functional Genomics, Aug. 2014. 2. B. Wajid, E. Serpedin, Life Sciences Driven Customized Linux Distributions, OA Bioinformatics, June 2014. 3. B. Wajid, E. Serpedin, M. Nounou, and H. Nounou, A modular approach to reference assisted sequence assembly, Int. J. Computational Biology and Drug Design, Apr. 14 (manuscript accepted). 4. B. Wajid, E. Serpedin, M. Nounou, and H. Nounou, Optimal reference sequence selection for genome assembly using minimum description length principle, EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, 2012(1), 18. 5. B. Wajid and E. Serpedin, Review of General Algorithmic Features for Genome Assemblers for Next Generation Sequencers, Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics, Elsevier, 2012. Journals under review 6. B. Wajid, E. Serpedin, Baari a customized operating system for Genome Assembly, Feb. 14, (manuscript under review). 7. B. Wajid, Ali R. Ekti, M. Shawaqfeh, E. Serpedin, Muhammad N. Ayyaz, Marwa K. Qaraqe, H. Nounou and M. Nounou, ECEbuntu a customized operating System designed for and Computer Engineers, (http://people.tamu.edu/~bilalwajidabbas/ecebuntu.html), Dec. 13, (manuscript under review). 8. B. Wajid, E. Serpedin, M. Nounou, and H. Nounou. Genobuntu: Genome Assembly Ubuntu Package, (http://people.tamu.edu/~bilalwajidabbas/genobuntu.html), Sep. 13, (manuscript under review). Conferences - accepted 1. A. Noor, A. Ahmad, B. Wajid, E. Serpedin, M. Nounou, and H. Nounou, A Closed-Form Solution for Transcription Factor Activity Estimation using Network Component Analysis,1 st International Conference on Algorithms for Computational Biology, (AlCoB) 2014 Tarragona, Spain.
2. B. Wajid, A. Reza Ekti, A. Noor, E. Serpedin, M. Nounou and H. Nounou, Supersonic MiB 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS 13), Dec. 13, Houston, TX, USA. 3. B. Wajid, E. Serpedin, M. Nounou and H. Nounou, Gibbs Sampling and Bayesian Estimation for Comparative Assembly, 3rd International Conference on Biomedical, Electronics and Nanotechnology (MIC-BEN'13), June 2013, Valencia, Spain. 4. B. Wajid, E. Serpedin, M. Nounou and H. Nounou, MiB: A Comparative Assembly Processing Pipeline, 2012 IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS 12), Dec 2012, Washington DC., USA. 5. B. Wajid and E. Serpedin, Minimum Description Length Based Selection of Reference Sequences for Comparative Assemblers, 2011 IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS 11), Dec. 2011, San Antonio, TX. USA. 6. B. Wajid, R. Aramayo and E. Serpedin, Exploring Minimum Description Length and Probabilistic Distributions of the Reference Sequences for Comparative Assembly of Genomes, International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing (GSP2011), June 2011, Bucharest, Romania 7. B. Wajid and E. Serpedin, Some Applications of Maximum Likelihood Approach to Genomic Signal Processing, International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing (GSP2011), June 2011, Bucharest, Romania. 8. B. Wajid and E. Serpedin, Making a comparative assembler a pseudo denovo assembler using minimum description length, Gensips 2010, Nov. 2010, New York, USA. Conferences under review 9. B. Wajid, E. Serpedin, Exploring MPI-based parallel computing in analyzing very large sequences, Dec. 14 (manuscript under review). 10. B. Wajid, E. Serpedin, Structural Variant Identification tools for Next Generation Sequencing Data, Aug. 14 (manuscript under review). 11. B. Wajid, E. Serpedin, Software suite for Genome assembly-education and research, Aug. 14 (manuscript under preparation). 12. B. Wajid, E. Serpedin and A. Hamad Akbar, Hybrid Agent Based Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks, (manuscript under preparation).