Matias Barcelo

Education

Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX)

Lyle School of Engineering – BA Computer Science, Minor Data Science

Jobs and Research Experience

Altshuler Learning Enhancement Center (SMU Tutoring Center)

Tutor for Computer Science, Data Science, Calculus, and Spanish.

Research Experience for Undergraduates — University of Texas at Dallas

Student Researcher at the Dr. Faruck Morcos evolutionary information lab.

Used UT Dallas’ high performance computing (HPC) system, specifically Ganymede 2, to help PHD student formulate research protocol for molecular dynamic simulations.

Research was done with the aim of better understanding protein folding or protein-protein interactions when mutations in residues (amino acids) are away from the interface (where proteins meet physically in interactions).

Packages/software/systems used: AMBER biomolecular tools package, Chimera Software, SLURM workload manager

Undergraduate Research at Dallas College — Dallas College (Eastfield Campus)

Laboratory Assistant for Mrs. Jessica Gonzalez.