User:Artpoon

I am an Assistant Professor at the UBC Faculty of Medicine and an Associate Research Scientist in Bioinformatics at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. Additionally, I am the recipient of a Scholar Award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) / St. Paul's Hospital Foundation - Providence Health Care Research Institute (SPHF-PHCRI) Career Investigator program.

My primary research focus is the molecular evolution of viruses, particularly of HIV. I make extensive use of computational techniques from phylogenetics, bioinformatics (pipelining, database management, and data visualization), and machine learning. Currently, my group is developing tools to reconstruct HIV evolution within hosts from next-generation sequence data, to reconstruct the genetic makeup of transmitted HIV variants, and to reconstruct the historical dynamics of local HIV epidemics.