Curriculum Vitae
Sabeel Mansuri
San Francisco Bay Area
Education
University of California, San Diego
B.S. in Computer Science: Bioinformatics
Summa Cum Laude
Phi Beta Kappa
Excellence in Teaching: Computer Science & Engineering
Work
Founding Engineer, Health AI
Amazon Web Services
I'm a founding engineer for AWS HealthOmics, a new petabyte-scale storage and analysis platform for bioinformatics researchers and clinicians.
Instructor (Remote)
UC San Diego
I'm an instructor for Hacking COVID-19, a health informatics series offered by the University of California, San Diego in partnership with Saint Petersburg State University.
Assistant Teacher
Computer Science & Engineering Department @ UC San Diego
I'm an assistant teacher for CSE6 XSD, an adaptation of my introductory Python course that is being offered by the Division of Extended Studies at UC San Diego.
Software Engineer, EC2
Amazon Web Services
My inaugural position at AWS was on Hyperplane, a hyper-scalable distributed networking system that underpins the core of EC2 VPC. In addition to developing core packet processing logic, I specialized in monitoring and data analysis.
Remote Instruction Advisor & Head Tutor
Computer Science & Engineering Department @ UC San Diego
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I was hired to drive ed-tech automation projects to implement remote instruction. Our team created bespoke (no/low-code) grading pipelines spanning across educational platforms and academic integrity software. I also served as the head tutor for the first remote offering of CSE 100 - Advanced Data Structures, designing all quiz, midterm, and final exam material which continues to be used in current course offerings.
Software Engineer Intern
Amazon.com
I worked on the Amazon Family team to refactor an internal ML product recommendation tool. My project was a full-stack redesign that opened the software to all teams across Amazon, abstracting customer behavior to determine team-specific product rankings.
Computational Research Assistant
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
I analyzed genetic data with an emphasis on de novo assembly. I optimized pipelines for processing genomic datasets, designed shell scripts for optimizing workflows, and assembled Antarctic DNA using state-of-the-art bioinformatics techniques.
Product Management Intern
Bravado
I served a swiss-army-knife role at Bravado, performing ideation & design sandboxing for major product releases, full-stack development, and quality assurance. I led a data-driven UX overhaul for new user onboarding and a search optimization yielding 90% latency reduction.
Projects
Education
CSE 6: Intro. to Comp. Sci. & OOP: Python
I'm the first author of an interactive, adaptive textbook for CSE 6R, a new fully-online introductory computer science course that is offered at campuses across the University of California. It embraces an active-learning approach that challenges students to think critically and diagnose their own learning breakdowns.
CSE 199: Development of Novel Educational Techniques
In partnership with IEEE - Eta Kappa Nu, I founded and led an accredited, four-unit course at UC San Diego for conducting education research. The poster we presented on our initiative at the 13th Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Southwest Region Conference is linked below.
Introduction to Adversarial Search
I was the lead author of a mini-course for AP Computer Science students that used an active-learning approach to teaching artificial intelligence. Students learn object-oriented programming principles, Minimax, and complete the course by building their own rational Tic-Tac-Toe bot.
Software Engineering
Scriptor
Best Software Engineering Project, Spring 2019
Scriptor is a solution for streamlining studying at the University of California, San Diego. Scriptor uses speech-to-text technology to process and index the UC San Diego Podcast System. This allows students to search for keywords and instantly be presented with precise timestamps in podcasts that match the information they want, efficiently parsing through a vast database so students don't have to. Scriptor wraps this functionality with a personalized interface, allowing users to favorite, save their history, and more.
Virtus
Winner - SD Hacks 2019
Virtus is a scalable solution for personalized education that makes virtual office hours more productive and efficient for students and instructors. Instructors can register their class, set up a broadcast, and host office hours remotely. Students can then join the stream, submit questions to the instructor, and collaborate with other students in a chatroom, gaining a personalized education without the limitations of a physical room.
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics Crash Course
The Bioinformatics Crash Course is a year-long introductory sequence of lessons intended to introduce aspiring bioinformaticians to practical, lab-applicable skills. For years, it has served as students' first exposure to bioinformatics due to the current lack of an introductory bioinformatics series at UC San Diego.
Oxford-Nanopore Genome Assembly
Oxford-Nanopore sequencing, which is slowly moving towards becoming the new standard for genome sequencing, was in its infancy when I was given an opportunity to perform a de novo assembly. After successfully assembling the genome of a local swamp bacteria, I published a tutorial on how to process, assemble, and annotate Oxford-Nanopore data.
Introduction to Epigenomics
I co-authored an introductory bioinformatics-driven lesson on epigenomics, which is the analysis of gene expression that is not attributable to the DNA sequence of a genome. It covers core epigenomic modifications and analysis techniques. It is intentionally written to accessible to novice learners with little prior knowledge and, like the Bioinformatics Crash Course above, introduce students to the field.
Organizations
IEEE - Eta Kappa Nu (HKN)
Officer
HKN is the official honors society of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego. I served as an officer from 2019-2020, founding HKN's Computer Science Outreach division. We connected local high schools with the resources and opportunities offered at UC San Diego. We also facilitated remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Undergraduate Bioinformatics Club (UBIC)
Ambassador and Crash Course Developer
UBIC is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to furthering bioinformatics initiatives at UC San Diego. From 2017-2018, I was the main contact point for recruiting industry and academia representatives. From 2018-2020, I developed and offered the Bioinformatics Crash Course to hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students.