Projects

We have worked on projects in areas ranging from Bioinformatics to Business Analytics, and from Computational Biology & Ecology to Systems Chemistry:

• Traffic light optimization: Based on an existing computer simulation of a real-world traffic situation, we designed and applied a genetic algorithm to optimize the traffic light timings at various road intersections, which resulted in an improvement of close to 30% in the overall traffic flow in the simulation model.
  [A project for Abstract Algorithms, Bangalore, India]
  
  
• Handwritten character recognition: We designed and implemented a neural network for recognizing handwritten digits (0 to 9) across a range of different handwritings. An overall accuracy of about 95% was achieved.
  [A project for Abstract Algorithms, Bangalore, India]
  
  
• Customer satisfaction prediction: We designed, implemented, and applied a neural network to predict customer satisfaction from emotion indicators extracted from online customer chat sessions. An accuracy of more than 95% was achieved.
  [An internal SmartAnalytiX project]
  
  
• Spatial ecology: We have provided general computing support (algorithm design, programming, simulation modeling, HPC support, creating R libraries, etc) for various research projects in spatial ecology. This has contributed to a variety of publications in scientific journals such as Ecology Letters, Ecography, and the Journal of Theoretical Biology.
  [Projects for the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and the University of Fribourg (UNIFR), Switzerland, and the Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile]
  
  
• Queue assignment: We developed and implemented a genetic algorithm to find optimal balanced sequences to assign customers to waiting queues. This work was published in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research.
  [A project for the Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands]
  
  
• Bioinformatics: We have successfully contributed to various bioinformatics projects by implementing and improving several phylogenetics methods. This resulted, among others, in a highly cited paper in the scientific journal Systematic Biology.
  [Projects for the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Lausanne, Switzerland, and the LIRMM, Montpellier, France]
  
  
• Systems chemistry: We have implemented and performed computer simulations of the dynamics of various experimental chemical reaction networks. This has led to various publications in scientific journals such as the Journal of Systems Chemistry and ChemPhysChem.
  [Projects for Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands, and Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel]