Mr Aidan O'Brien
Postgraduate
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Biography
Aidan O’Brien graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Biotechnology (1st class honours) in 2013. With Dr. Timothy Bailey as his honours supervisor, he developed GT-Scan, a CRISPR target predictor.
Aidan then started at CSIRO with the transformational bioinformatics team, where he developed VariantSpark, which applies BigData machine learning algorithms to genomic data.
Aidan has 4 journal publications (3 first author) with 97 citations (h-index 4). He received the “Best student and postdoc” award at CSIRO in 2015 and attracted $180K in funding to date as AI.
Aidan has now started his PhD in the field of genome editing at the Australian National University.
Achievements and Awards
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Successful Student / Postdoc Award
CSIRO -
NSW iAwards for GT-Scan2
aiia -
PhD top up scholarship
CSIRO
Current Roles
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PhD Student
Investigating machine learning models for efficient homology directed repair
Academic Qualifications
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2013
BBiotech Hons, Bioinformatics
The University of Queensland
Professional Experiences
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2013-2014
Research Assistant
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland -
2014-2016
Research Assistant
University of Newcastle -
2016-2017
Research Project Officer
CSIRO -
2017
PhD Student
Australian National University
Community and Corporate Citizenship
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2017-Present
Fire Warden
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2017-Present
North Ryde Social Club