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United States

USD 75 /hr

PhD scientist/engineer with 7+ years experience in biotech and genomics space

Profile Summary

• Extensive experience leading cross-functional product development programs and teams • Management experience as a people manager, team leader, and project manager • Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills • Hands on experience in product development including lab work, data analysis, and documentation • Team player who enjoys working on multi-functional teams to innovate at the highest technical level

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Spectroscopy
• ★ Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
• ★ Project Management
• ☆ Materials Science & Engineering
• ☆ Physical Chemistry
• ☆ Biopolymers
• ☆ Analytical Chemistry
• ☆ UV Spectroscopy
• ☆ Fluorescence Spectroscopy
• ☆ IR Spectroscopy
• ☆ Molecular Imaging
• ☆ Peptide Synthesis
• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ DNA Sequencing
• ☆ Microscopy
• ☆ Light Microscopy
• ☆ Fluorescence Microscopy
• ☆ Scanning Probe Microscopy
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Image Processing
• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Applied Statistics
• ☆ Regression Analysis
• ☆ Multivariate Analysis
• ☆ Nonlinear Regression
• ☆ Correlation Analysis
• ☆ Applied Chemistry
• ☆ Process Engineering
• ☆ Python
• ☆ Matlab
• ☆ SQL
• ☆ Excel
• ☆ R
• ☆ Tableau

Services

• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Research Scientific and Technical Research

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Image Processing, Image Analysis, Algorithm Design-Non ML, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Text Mining & Analytics, Data Mining, Data Cleaning, Data Processing, Data Insights

Product Development Recipe Development, Quality Assurance & Control (QA/QC), Concept Development, Prototyping, Device Fabrication

Work Experience

Sr. Staff Engineer

Illumina Inc

December 2022 - October 2024

Staff engineer

Illumina Inc

April 2020 - December 2022

Sr. Engineer

Illumina Inc

August 2017 - April 2020

Research Fellow

University of Pennsylvania

July 2012 - July 2017

Teaching Assistant

University of Pennsylvania

September 2012 - May 2013

Education

Ph.D., Physical Chemistry

University of Pennsylvania

August 2012 - April 2017

B.S. Chemistry and B.A. Mathematics

The College of New Jersey

August 2008 - May 2012

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Rachel M. Abaskharon, Debopreeti Mukherjee, Feng Gai (2019). 4-Oxoproline as a Site-Specific Infrared Probe: Application To Assess Proline Isomerization and Dimer Formation . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

Rachel M. Abaskharon, Stephen P. Brown, Wenkai Zhang, Jianxin Chen, Amos B. Smith, Feng Gai (2017). Isotope-labeled aspartate sidechain as a non-perturbing infrared probe: Application to investigate the dynamics of a carboxylate buried inside a protein . Chemical Physics Letters.

Jeffrey M. Rodgers, Rachel M. Abaskharon, Bei Ding, Jianxin Chen, Wenkai Zhang, Feng Gai (2017). Fermi resonance as a means to determine the hydrogen-bonding status of two infrared probes . Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

Rachel M. Abaskharon, Feng Gai (2016). Meandering Down the Energy Landscape of Protein Folding: Are We There Yet? . Biophysical Journal.

Rachel M. Abaskharon, Feng Gai (2016). Direct measurement of the tryptophan-mediated photocleavage kinetics of a protein disulfide bond . Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

Mary Rose Hilaire, Rachel M. Abaskharon, Feng Gai (2015). Biomolecular Crowding Arising from Small Molecules, Molecular Constraints, Surface Packing, and Nano-Confinement . The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

Rachel M. Abaskharon, Robert M. Culik, G. Andrew Woolley, Feng Gai (2015). Tuning the Attempt Frequency of Protein Folding Dynamics via Transition-State Rigidification: Application to Trp-Cage . The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

Robert M. Culik, Rachel M. Abaskharon, Ileana M. Pazos, Feng Gai (2014). Experimental Validation of the Role of Trifluoroethanol as a Nanocrowder . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

Ileana M. Pazos, Rachel M. Roesch, Feng Gai (2013). Quenching of p-cyanophenylalanine fluorescence by various anions . Chemical Physics Letters.

PATENT

Rachel Abaskharon, Dustin Blair, Patrick Wen, John Earney, Anmiv Prabhu, Gregory Holst, Chia-Hsi Liu, Ravi Bhushan, Singhchawhan Thakur, Dakota Watson, et al. DYNAMIC CALIBRATION OF OPTICAL SYSTEM.

Thomas Baker, Kevin Early, Siqi Zhang, Anmiv Prabhu, Patrick Wen Sequencer focus quality metrics and focus tracking for periodically patterned surfaces.