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Ali Owji

Madison, WI

Education

Georgetown University M.S. in Bioinformatics  ·  GPA 4.0
2024
University of Florida B.S. in Microbiology & Cell Science  ·  Minor in Bioinformatics  ·  GPA 3.5
2019 – 2023

Experience

Epic Systems Project Manager
2024 – Present
Madison, WI
  • Lead implementation of Epic Cupid cardiology module across health system clients
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams to optimize clinical workflows and EHR integration
  • Manage HL7 interface builds and Bridges/Cogito configuration for data interoperability
National Institutes of Health Data Science Fellow
June – Aug 2024
Section of Biomedical Optics, Dr. Bruce Tromberg  ·  Bethesda, MD
  • Developed automated heartbeat segmentation algorithm for speckle plethysmography waveforms
  • Engineered 95 signal features; identified diastolic-to-systolic ratio as strongest predictor of vascular stiffness (r = -0.673)
  • Validated non-invasive PWV estimation pipeline across healthy subjects and CADASIL patients
University of Florida – Czyż Lab Research Assistant
Sep 2021 – Jun 2022
Department of Microbiology & Cell Science  ·  Gainesville, FL
  • Designed and validated the Time-Off-Pick (TOP) assay for measuring C. elegans motility impairment
  • Quantified protein aggregates in P. aeruginosa using ProteoStat fluorescence assay
  • Co-authored two peer-reviewed publications on bacterial proteostasis and neurodegenerative disease

Projects

Arctic Sea Surface Height Prediction Sep – Dec 2024
Georgetown University
  • Built ML framework (U-Net CNN, LSTM autoencoder, Random Forest) on 70 months of ICESat-2 satellite data
  • Achieved 16 cm spatial prediction accuracy across 448x304 Arctic grid; identified 5 distinct temporal SSHA patterns

Skills

Programming & Analysis
Python R pandas scipy TensorFlow scikit-learn Signal Processing STATA SQL
Healthcare IT
Epic Cupid Epic Bridges Epic Cogito HL7 / FHIR EHR Implementation
Tools
Git Jupyter VS Code HTML/CSS ImageJ GraphPad Prism

Publications

Owji A, et al. Time-off-pick Assay to Measure Caenorhabditis elegans Motility. Bio-protocol, 2022. doi:10.21769/BioProtoc.4436

Czyż Lab. Bacteria-Derived Protein Aggregates Contribute to the Disruption of Host Proteostasis. Int. J. Mol. Sci., 2022. doi:10.3390/ijms23094807