Miss Namir Oues
PhD Student

Summary

I am a doctoral researcher working on designing and implementing machine learning techniques to predict the effect of mutations on protein dynamics. For my work, I use data from computational simulations of proteins generated with Molecular Dynamics methods. 

My academic background is in Applied Mathematics and Data Science and Analytics fields.

I have professional experience working at the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency as a Research Software Applications Developer and Data Scientist UK’s Government’s primary healthcare data. While working in MHRA I was also part of the team monitoring the Covid Vaccination Surveillance program.

Publications

• Oues, N., Dantu, S. C., Patel, R. J., Pandini, A., (2023) "MDSubSampler: a posteriori sampling of important protein conformations from biomolecular simulations", Bioinformatics, Volume 39, Issue 7, July, btad427, Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btad427
• Benedetti, J., Oues, N., Wang, Z., Myles, P., & Tucker, A. (2020). "Practical Lessons from Generating Synthetic Healthcare Data with Bayesian Networks", Advances in Artificial Intelligence (pp. 24-34). Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-65965-3_3. 
• Campbell, J., Shepherd, H., Welburn, S., Barnett, R., Oyinlola, J., Oues, N., & Williams, R. (2022) "Methods to refine and extend a Pregnancy Register in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink primary care databases", Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, DOI: 10.1002/pds.5584.

Conferences and awards

• CCP5 Summer School (Award for best poster presentation)                                                                       Durham, United Kingdom (July 2022)
• Enhanced Sampling Simulations Methods                                                                                                   University College London, United Kingdom (December 2022)
• Thomas Young Centre Postgraduate Day Event (Poster presentation)                                                     University College London, United Kingdom (May 2023)
• PLUMED Summer School                                                                                                                              Lausanne, Switzerland (July 2023)
• MDAnalysis User Group Meeting (Award for best presentation talk & Travel Award)                                  Lisbon, Portugal (September 2023)
• Young Modellers' Forum (Research presentation talk)                                                                               University of Oxford, United Kingdom (November 2023)
• Biophysical Society Annual Conference (Poster presentation & Travel Award)                                  Philadelphia, USA (February 2024)
• Vice-Chancellor’s Conference Prize Award                                                                                                            For attending the Biophysical Society Annual Conference