Computer Science and Engineering graduate student Zahmeeth Sakkaff recently earned a best poster award at the 2019 SIAM Computational Science and Engineering Conference.
Zahmeeth Sayed Sakkaff is a Ph.D. candidate, graduate research assistant, and lab manager in the Molecular and Biochemical Telecommunications (MBiTe) lab under the supervision of Dr. Massimiliano Pierobon. The awarded poster, entitled “Molecular Communication in Cell Metabolism Communication & Information-Centric Computational Tool in KBase,” is a result of a collaboration of Sakkaff and Dr. Pierobon with Dr. Nidhi Gupta and Dr. Christopher Henry from the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and the University of Chicago. The project was funded by ANL and the National Science Foundation through the “WetComm” grant (CCF-1816969).
Sakkaff’s current research focuses on communication and information-centric computational modeling and characterization, in particular applied to multiscale integrated biological pathways underlying the information flow in microbes and human cells, both at a single-cell level, and community level. Sakkaff has earned multiple best paper, best poster, and outstanding student awards from international conferences and UNL.
The SIAM CSE conference, where Sakkaff’s poster was awarded, seeks to enable in-depth technical discussions on a wide variety of major computational efforts on large-scale problems in science and engineering, foster the interdisciplinary culture required to meet these large-scale challenges, and promote the training of the next generation of computational scientists. The conference is an excellent place for students, faculty, and researchers to connect with non-profitable labs in organizations such as DOE, NASA, MathWorks, Intel, Microsoft, and Boeing that are exploring the fields of data science, computational science and numerical analysis, optimization, control and system theory, life science, and others.
CSE students who are interested in attending the conference or joining the program should contact Sakkaff for more information at sszahmeeth@gmail.com. With enough interest from students, SIAM will be able to begin and fund a chapter of its organization at UNL. Engineering, mathematics, and other STEM majors are welcome to apply and join.
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