Dooman Akbarian

Experience

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  University of Tehran

  Aug 2011 - May 2014

  Graduate Research Assistant

  • Development of a finite element numerical model to evaluate the risk of cervical disc arthroplasty.

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  Penn State University

  Aug 2015 - Aug 2021

  Graduate Research Assistant

  • Built a data generation pipeline for hydrocarbon electron affinity dataset by cleaning, aggregating, feature engineering, and missing value imputation; and developed a random forest model to predict the electron affinity of hydrocarbons based on their geometrical features. • Developed a machine learning accelerated atomistic-scale simulation framework for polymerization of polyethylene using ridge regression and classification algorithms. • Developed a deep neural network model to predict the electronic properties of small molecules with 82% testing accuracy over more than 7,200 molecules.• Developed a web-scraper using Selenium library in Python to crawl through the web pages of online chemical databases and collect data. Show less

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  The Data Incubator

  Dec 2020 - Mar 2021

  Data Science Fellow

  • Analyzed the users’ behaviour and predicted the tags of posts on Stack Overflow with 85% accuracy by parsing 10 GB+ XML files through Spark distributed computing framework and natural language processing.• Estimated the ratings of restaurants with 87% accuracy using NLTK library in Python and natural language processing techniques such as bidirectional LSTM method as well as TFIDF-based approach.• Analyzed the health and safety scores and violation of restaurants in NYC for the past 4 years using SQL.• Predicted the type of 10 different objects from their images with 91% accuracy using VGG-19 convolutional neural network model over 60K images.• Developed a web-scraper using Beautiful Soup library in Python to crawl through the NYC Social Diary photo captions and build a complex network graph showcasing social interactions for NYC elite. Show less

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  The Cincinnati Insurance Companies

  Aug 2021 - Oct 2021

  Data Scientist
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  NIH Clinical Center (CC)

  Oct 2021 - Jan 2022

  Fellow
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  The Cincinnati Insurance Companies

  Jan 2022 - now

  • Data Scientist II

    Oct 2023 - now

  • Predictive Modeler

    Jan 2022 - Oct 2023