On Friday, March 5th, I will be talking to one of the best data science mentors on Youtube, known for his work in bioinformatics and machine learning. His colorful infographics, succinct visualizations of the concepts, and depth of knowledge amaze every beginner in data science.
Chanin Nantasenamat is also known as ‘Data Professor’, a name everyone knows if they have ever searched for ‘data science’ on youtube. He is the head of ‘Center of Data Mining and Biomedical Informatics’ at Mahidol University, Thailand, and an Associate Professor as well. He has held visiting professor positions at Uppsala University in Sweden and California State University and University of California in US.
He has been the principal investigator of grants worth millions of dollars and has received numerous awards for his teaching and research work. He has over 100 publications at the cutting-edge of bioinformatics. He has peer-reviewed in over 40 journals.
Join us as we explore the boundaries of drug development and biotechnology and how data science and AI is helping us do that.
Video Link: https://youtu.be/xoCXVasBDe0?list=PLtluUSnvgbdF7MlqjX5-IVMCkFGTrEWlz
Audio Link: https://anchor.fm/minhaaj/episodes/Bioinformatics-with-Chanin-Nantasenamat-aka-Data-Professor-ermruh
Timestamps of the Conversation:
0:00 Intro
3:27 Thai, Chinese and Sanskrit Language Family
5:32 Transitioning from Medical and Biology careers to Data Science
10:23 Challenges for Chanin in Switching to Data Science
15:17 Technical vs Theoretical Challenges
18:28 GUI based tools for Citizen Data Scientists
23:37 Python vs R
26:25 Interoperability between R and Python
27:43 Julia taking over Python?
3:27 Thai, Chinese and Sanskrit Language Family
28:39 Chanin as Child Prodigy or Passionate Learner
32:22 Most useful ML Algorithms
35:53 Oversimplified Models vs Neural Network BlackBox for Drug Discovery
40:55 COVID 19 Vaccine, Drug Approval, FDA and Science
53:17 Kai Fu Lee’s book AI, China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order
59:20 Chinese Scientist imprisoned for Genetically Modifying Twin Girls
01:01:18 CRISPR, Genetic Modification and Unintended Consequences
01:03:27 Research in Healthcare in Sweden, Grants, Bioinformatics Tool Development
01:07:39 Nvidia GPUs, Hyperparallelization and Load Balancing for Molecular Dynamics
01:11:22 Drug Ingredients, Holistic Medicine, Four Temperaments and Homeostatis
01:20:09 Inspiration for Chanin
01:32:44 GUI vs Code for Data Science
01:45:55 Big Data ETL pipelines and Quality
01:52:47 R Markdown, Overleaf and Latex
01:54:42 R Shiny, Streamlit, Dash, Flask and Django for MVPs
02:01:50 Drug Companies, Research Sharing and Open Innovation
02:03:39 Academic Publishing’s High Cost, Exclusivity and SciHub, Libgenesis
01:32:44 Academic Journal’s Biased Editors, Lack of Diversity and Corruption of Academia
01:14:25 Ideal Model for Fixing Academics and Low Salaries. Love of Science
02:21:15 Chanin’s Daughter and her Ambitions
Chanin’s Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chanin-na...
Youtube Channel: http://youtube.com/dataprofessor
Github: http://github.com/chaninlab
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