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Leonard Apeltsin

Headline: Entrepreneur
Skills: C/C++, Django, Engineering, HTML / CSS, Java, Languages and Platforms, Perl, PHP, Python, Software Engineering, SQL, Web Development
Groups: 2011 UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition, 2012 UC Berkeley Startup Competition, UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition 2009-2010, [INACTIVE] UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition 2008-2009
Interested in: Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup
Schools: Carnegie Mellon University, University of California System - San Francisco

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: iRhythm
Position: Research Consultant
Time period: March 2008 - Present
Description: Wrote software for testing hardware in medical devices. Researched and developed mathematical models of heart rate in healthy and diseased patients

Employer: UCSF
Position: PhD Research
Description: Network Analysis and Visualization of Biological Context.
Developed algorithms for inferring structural and functional information from protein sequence data. Integrated these algorithms, with Cytoscape, a Java based Open Source tool for biological network analysis.

Employer: Attributor
Position: Research and Development Consultant
Time period: August 2006 - December 2008
Description: Developed algorithms for intelligent extraction of relevant data from online content. Developed data aggregators and web crawlers for content generation. Implemented tools for automated product testing. Developed a web application for client feedback.

EDUCATION

University: Carnegie Mellon University
Time period: 2001 - 2005
Degree: Double Major in Biological Sciences and Computer Science

University: University of California System - San Francisco
Time period: 2005 - Present
Degree: Biological and Medical Informatics, PhD

PUBLICATIONS

Articles: - J. Baumbach, L.Apeltsin. Linking Cytoscape and the cornynebacterial reference database. CoryneRegNet. BMC Genomics 9:184 , 2008.
- K. Puskar, L. Apeltsin, S. Ta'asan, R. Schwartz, and P. R. LeDuc. Understanding actin organization in cell structure through lattice Monte Carlo simulations. Mechanics and Chemistry of Biosystems, 1:123-131, 2004.

Leonard's Startups (3)

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  • PPA

    Better contextual advertising through crowdsourcing.

  • VizWiz

    An platform for building, storing, and display interactive network visualization applications based on user's social network data

  • Project Deepnet

    Project Deepnet aims to gives users TOTAL Control over ALL Internet Content