ELENA SAMSONOVA
e-mail: Elena.Samsonova@inter.nl.net
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Elena.Samsonova
United Kingdom
December 04, 2006

Profile Resumé INN News Server Papers & Software

Main qualifications

M.Sc. in computer science preceded by 12 years of industrial software engineering and followed by 4 years of scientific computing in academia (Ph.D. in bioinformatics nearing completion).

Areas of system development: scientific computing, Internet and real time systems, graphical user interfaces.

Programming paradigms: machine learning, neural networks, evolutionary computation.

Programming languages: expert knowledge of C, C++ and Unix shell scripting, practical knowledge of Java, PostScript, HTML, MIPS assembly, Perl and Pascal.

System administration: expert knowledge of Linux, IRIX and Solaris.

Languages: fluent in written and oral English, French, Dutch and Russian, moderate in German.

 

Experience

2006--now Software for orthopaedics, University of Southampton, research fellow.

  • Design and implementation of a software package generating patient-specific finite element models for total knee replacement.

    2002--2006 Ph.D. thesis, Leiden / Amsterdam Center for Drug Research (LACDR), Leiden University. Classification of G protein-coupled receptors.

  • Conception, design and implementation of taxonomy builders and classifiers, and visualisation and interpretation of the results.
  • Supervision of graduate students (Master's theses and other projects).

    2001--2002 Industrial software design, CMG, consultant.

  • Project management and design of industrial software, focusing on embedded and/or real time software.

    1996--2001 Internet systems and software

    2000--2001: marviQ, systems integrator

  • Design of operational procedures for the post-development phases of the software life cycle.

    1996--2000: Planet Media Group, systems developer

  • Design, implementation and maintenance of Internet service applications and systems software as well as computer network systems; specific expertise in news and web content caching.

    1990--1996 Real time systems and software, Fico, systems analyst, software engineer

  • Analysis of customer requirements, consulting on system architecture.
  • Software design and implementation of the communications, data logging and processing, and graphical user interface subsystems.
  • Design of the software development life cycle according to the IEEE semiconductor industry standards.
  • Design of the department organisational procedures for the ISO-9001 industrial norm.
  • Technical documentation of industrial software.
  • Teaching technical courses and seminars to customers and business partners.

     

    Education

    2002--2006 Bioinformatics, Leiden University, the Netherlands. Ph.D. thesis soon to be completed.

    1995--2002 Computer Science, Leiden University, the Netherlands. Master of Science.

    1989--2002 various schooling and courses in software development, system administration, project management and presentation techniques.

    1986--1989 Mathematics and Computer Science, Moscow State University, Russia.

     

    Publications

    E.V. Samsonova, P. Krause, T. Bäck, A.P. IJzerman (2006) Characteristic amino acid combinations in olfactory G protein-coupled receptors. Proteins, in press.

    E.V. Samsonova, J.N. Kok, A.P. IJzerman (2006) TreeSOM: cluster analysis in the self-organizing map. Neural Networks, 19(6-7):935-949.

    E.V. Samsonova, T. Bäck, J.N. Kok, A.P. IJzerman (2005) Reliable hierarchical clustering with the self-organizing map. In: A.F. Famili, J.N. Kok, J.M. Peña, et al. (eds.), Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis VI, LNCS vol. 3646, pp. 385--396, Springer Verlag.

    E.V. Samsonova, J.N. Kok, A.P. IJzerman (2005) TreeSOM: cluster analysis in the self-organizing map. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (WSOM), pp. 429--438.

    E.V. Samsonova, T. Bäck, M.W. Beukers, A.P. IJzerman, J.N. Kok (2003) Combining and comparing cluster methods in a receptor database. In: M.R. Berthold, H.-J. Lenz, E. Bradley, et al. (eds.), Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis V, LNCS vol. 2810, pp. 341--351, Springer Verlag.

    E.V. Samsonova (2002) Helix: an artificial life system modeling DNA. Master's Thesis, Leiden University.

    E.V. Samsonova (1998--2000) InterNet News server documentation. Part of the INN distribution,