Alessandro Marin, PhD
Physicist working as Senior Engineer at Oslo University in scientific software development and research support. Qualified by 4 years of corporate experience as support specialist in Analytics and 7 years of doctoral and post-doctoral academic experience in physics. Proficient in software development (back- and front-end), technical support, scientific research, machine learning. I am interested in leveraging my skills for a role in software development and support of scientific researchers in the field of science education.
Experience
Senior Engineer
Work on science educational projects, develop software infrastructure for UiO's educational platforms
- Submitted an education research study based on Natural Language Processing. Paper submitted to Physics Education
- Created software infrastructure for the S-Assess project aimed at developing a structured assessment system and learning analytics
- Responsible for the development of the DocOnce document processing system
- Providing staff support in data analysis and computational infrastructure
Oslo, Norway
Support Specialist - Business Intelligence and Analytics
Provide technical support for InterSystems’ platform for analytics DeepSee
- Provided customer and developer support by solving technical issues (about 450)
- Development of applications using front- and back-end technology
- Developed and improved analytical models, architecture, and computing performance for analytics software
- Administered computational infrastructure and data
Cambridge, MA
Postdoctoral Scientist
Investigated the molecular electronic processes in organic semiconductors by modeling spectroscopic data
- Developed a model of spectroscopic data to extract rates of charge yields
- Implemented software using queues and event-driven programming in LabVIEW for laser systems
Delft, the Netherlands
Ph.D. in Biophysics of Photosynthesis
Researched the transport of light energy in plant and algal photosynthesis
- Developed MATLAB software for data processing, performed model-based analysis of spectroscopic data on high performance servers
- Co-developer of the C (LabWindows) software for a laser detector. Set up real-time instrument control and digital data processing at high-repetition rates
- Published 6 peer-reviewed publications (4 first author) in academic journals
Amsterdam,
the Netherlands
Master Thesis in Hearing Research
Researched cochlear mechanics
- Preprocessed movies of the cochlea with wavelet denoising and deconvolution
- Invented and developed a MATLAB algorithm that uses optical flow to couple a simulation of cochlear movement to microscopic movies
- Published a peer reviewed publication in an academic journal
Stockholm, Sweden
Education
PhD in Biophysics of Photosynthesis.
Full time research in biophysics of photosynthesis on the EU funded project Harvest
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
BSc in Physics, MSc in Applied Physics
Bachelor and Master in Physics at University of Padova.
Master thesis in Biophysics of the cochlea at Karolinska Institutet.
Padova, Italy
Stockholm, Sweden
Bachelor of Music, Piano
Conservatory of Music Benedetto Marcello
3 years piano, 1 year composition.
Venice, Italy
Skills
Programming Languages & Tools
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Software development: Python, Caché ObjectScript, ShellScript (Bash), LabVIEW, Java, C, LabWindows/CVI
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Website development: HTML/Javascript, React, Angular, Django, NodeJS, REST
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Data analysis: MATLAB, Python, MDX
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Machine learning: Python (pandas, numpy, matplotlib, scikit-learn, gensim, nltk, etc)
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Databases: NoSQL (MongoDB, Firebase, AWS, InterSystems Caché/IRIS), Relational (Caché SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite)
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Version control software: Git, Perforce
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Cloud: AWS, Google Firebase, MongoDB
Skills
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Machine Learning: regression, classification clustering, ensemble methods, dimensionality reduction, natural language processing (topic analysis), time series analysis, web scraping, anomaly detection, familiarity with recommendation systems, neural networks
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Professional experience with large-scale code bases (InterSystems Caché)
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Troubleshooting technical issues using the scientific method and problem solving theory
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Teamwork: launched and supported research projects resulting in 7 academic publications
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Management responsibilities and teaching: mentored a new hire and BSc and MSc students, who completed their projects on time and to a high standard. Two years teaching assistant in the MATLAB/LabVIEW course Applied Informatics for Medical Students given in Dutch
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Business Intelligence Analytics: diagnosing issues on data, BI models, architecture. Recommending optimizations for performance problems, efficient parallel processing of data
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Scientific/Technical writing: published 4 first-authored academic publications, as well as 12 technical articles for the Developer Community of InterSystems
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Communication: presented 16 oral talks at international conferences
Languages
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Italian: Native
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English: Full professional proficiency
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Dutch: Full professional proficiency
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Norwegian: Professional working proficiency (Høyere mellomnivå)
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French: Limited professional proficiency
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Spanish: Limited professional proficiency
Projects
Projects at UiO
- Software Development: Responsible for maintaining and developing different software e.g. DocOnce, a tool for generating documents in different formats
- Science Education LDA: Analysis of 100 years of Science Education papers using Natural Language Processing
- Topic Analysis on Physics Education literature: Thematic Analysis of Physics Education literature using machine learning
- Computing Cluster Administrator: Maintainer of high performance computer cluster for scientific computations
- Data export from Canvas LMS: Harvesting Data from Canvas LMS to carry out learning analytics
Projects
- Machine Learning Notebooks: IPython notebooks for Machine Learning projects
- Named Entity Recognition: Exploring Named Entity Recognition on news articles
- PyPanda: Optimized a method for modeling transcriptional networks in Python
- PyPuma: Wrote a Python application of a computational biology method for miRNA network inference
- Firebase Forum: Forum Website based on Firebase and React
- Firebase-React-BoardGameGeek: Website based on Firebase and React
- Zero Waste Locator: MEAN (MongoDB, Express, Angular, Node) app to share Zero Waste stores on Google Maps
- Djangoresume: My Django-based online resume
- DeepSeeButtons: Gather and analyze system information from InterSystems platforms
- Mezzanine-website: My Django/Mezzanine-based site
- InterSystems: Miscellaneous projects involving InterSystems' technology
- Install-Samples-BI: Automatically install SAMPLES in IRIS Data Platform
- Tantrix: Implementation in Python of a puzzle game
Other
Other Achievements
- Norwegian language certificate C1-C2: Advanced/Proficient Norwegian - Norsk for viderekommende, trinn IV, som ekvivalerer med nivå C1-C2
- MIT Professional Education Program: Certificate for the "Data Science: Data to Insights" online course on Data Science and Machine Learning
- Oracle Certified Associate: Java SE 8 Programmer
- Feature article on titan.uio.no: Article in UiO's newspaper about a published Machine Learning project (på norsk)
- Online courses: Certificates (Coursera, Lynda) on programming, machine learning, deep learning, and network science
- Tech articles: My articles on Developer Community, InterSystems' online community for developers
- Norwegian language certificate: Upper intermediate part 1 - Høyere mellomnivå del 1 (B2)
Publications
- Tor Ole B. Odden, Alessandro Marin, John L. Rudolf How has Science Education changed over the last 100 years? An analysis using Natural Language Processing Science Education, submitted, 2021. Link
- Odden TOB, Marin A, Caballero MD. Thematic Analysis of 18 Years of PERC Proceedings using Natural Language Processing. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020. Link
- Marieke LK, Fagny M, Marin A, Quackenbush J, Glass K. PUMA: PANDA Using MicroRNA Associations. Bioinformatics, 2020. Link
- Marin A, van Stokkum IH, Novoderezhkin VI, van Grondelle R. Excitation-induced polarization decay in the plant light-harvesting complex LHCII. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, A: Chemistry, 2012, 234:91-99. Link
- Marin A, Doust AB, Scholes GD, Wilk KE, Curmi PMG, van Stokkum IHM, van Grondelle R. Flow of excitation energy in the cryptophyte light-harvesting antenna phycocyanin 645. Biophysical Journal, 2011, 101:1004-1013. Link
- Novoderezhkin VI, Marin A, van Grondelle R. Intra- and inter-monomeric transfers in the light harvesting LHCII complex: the Redfield-Frster picture. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2011, 13(38):17093-103. Link
- Marin A, Passarini F, van Stokkum IH, Croce R, van Grondelle R. Minor complexes at work: light-harvesting by Carotenoids in the Photosystem II antenna complexes CP24 and CP26 Biophysical Journal, 2011, 100(11):2829-2838. Link
- Gall A, Berera R, Alexandre MTA, Pascal AA, Bordes L, Mendes-Pinto MM, Andrianambinintso S, Stoitchkova KV, Marin A, Valkunas L, Horton P, Kennis JTM, van Grondelle R, Ruban A, Robert B. Molecular adaptation of photoprotection: Triplet states in light-harvesting proteins Biophysical Journal, 2011, 101(4):934-942. Link
- Marin A, Passarini F, Croce R, van Grondelle R. The energy transfer pathways in the CP24 and CP26 antenna complexes of higher plant Photosystem II. A comparative study. Biophysical Journal, 2010, 99:4056-4065. Link
- Boutet de Monvel J, Marin A, Jacob S, Tomo I, von Tiedemann M, Fridberger A, Ulfendahl M, Steele CR. From cochlear kinematics to cochlear mechanics: matching model to experiments Otol Jpn, 2007, 16(2):76-84. Link