Andreas Sundquist
Triple-BS in Electrical Eng & Computer Science, Physics, and Math with MEng from MIT. PhD in Computer Science (Computational Genomics) from Stanford University.
| Headline: | Startup Member |
| Industries: | Biotech, Computing, Information Technology, Internet |
| Skills: | C/C++, Engineering, English, French, Java, Languages, Languages and Platforms, Software Engineering, Swedish |
| Groups: | BASES E-Challenge 2010, E-Challenge Competition 2008, E-Challenge Competition 2009, Stanford C.S. and E.E Engineers Group |
| Interested in: | Helping friends, Meeting new people, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Stanford Lee Emerson Bassett Toastmasters |
| Position: | Mentor, President, Vice President of Education |
| Time period: | December 2005 - Present |
| Description: | Led a team of officers to run the club’s business, oversee the educational progress of members in public speaking & leadership, plan high-quality weekly meetings. |
| Employer: | Oracle Corporation |
| Position: | Senior Member of Technical Staff – Server Technologies Virtual Operating System group |
| Time period: | July 2001 - September 2003 |
| Description: | Developed new features for the Oracle database server on multiple architectures and operating
systems. Performed research in analyzing instruction and memory usage patterns of the server. |
| Employer: | MIT Center for Educational Computing Initiatives |
| Position: | Undergraduate Researcher |
| Time period: | October 2000 - July 2001 |
| Description: | Researched algorithms for visualizing dynamic experiments in electromagnetism, created and
implemented a novel methodology, wrote my Master’s thesis and published an article on it. |
| Employer: | Silicon Graphics (SGI) |
| Position: | Design Engineer |
| Time period: | June 2000 - August 2000 |
| Description: | ∙ Designed a high-bandwidth digital video board for their new line of visual workstations.
∙ Investigated the design of visualization serving hardware on the SGI Infinite Reality graphics system. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Stanford University |
| Time period: | 2003 - 2008 |
| Degree: | Computer Science, PhD |
| University: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Time period: | 1997 - 2001 |
| Degree: | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Physics, and Math, BSc |
| University: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Degree: | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MEng |
PUBLICATIONS
| Articles: | ∙ Valouev A, Johnson D, Sundquist A, Medina C, Anton E, Batzoglou S, Myers R, Sidow A. “Genome-Wide Analysis of Transcription Binding Sites Based on ChIP-Seq Data.” Nature Methods, Aug 17, ‘08.
∙ Sundquist A, Fratkin E, Do CB, Batzoglou S. “Effect of Genetic Divergence in Identifying Ancestral Origin using HAPAA.” Genome Research, March 18, 2008. ∙ Sundquist A, Bigdeli S, Jalili R, El-Sayed YY, Taslimi MM, Batzoglou S, Ronaghi M. “Bacterial flora-typing with targeted, chip-based Pyrosequencing.” BMC Microbiology, Nov 30, 2007. ∙ Sundquist A, Ronaghi M, Tang H, Pevzner P, Batzoglou S. “Whole-Genome Sequencing and Assembly with High-Throughput, Short-Read Technologies.” PLoS ONE, May 30, 2007. ∙ Sundquist A. “Dynamic Line Integral Convolution for Visualizing Streamline Evolution.” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, July – Sept 2003. |
| Patents: | Sundquist A, Mostafa Ronaghi, Serafim Batzoglou. “Whole-Genome Sequencing and Assembly using High-Throughput Short-Read Technologies.” Filed May 29, 2008. |
INFORMATION
| Awards: | ∙ Toastmasters International Competent Leader (2007 – 2008)
∙ Stanford Graduate Fellowship: Awarded to “outstanding students in science & engineering” (2003) ∙ Honor societies: (2001) Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science), Sigma Pi Sigma (Physics), Tau Beta Pi (Engineering), Phi Beta Kappa (Liberal Arts and Sciences), Sigma Xi (Scientific Research) ∙ Burchard Scholar: Awarded for “excellence in the humanities, arts, and social sciences” (1999) ∙ Design contest winnings: Awarded in three courses for best design: (1998 – 1999) Structure & Interp. of Computer Programs, Software Engineering Lab, Computation Structures ∙ Letters of commendation from professors: (1998 – 1999) Awarded in five courses for top-of-the-class performance, each with hundreds of students: Math for Comp. Sci., Algorithms, Software Engineering Lab, Circuits & Electronics, Signals & Systems |
Andreas' Startups (1)
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DNAnexus
DNAnexus' mission is to accelerate the arrival of the genome era by building a platform for analyzing, visualizing, and managing the world's DNA sequence data.
Andreas' Contacts (4)
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Ricky Yean
Taiwanese-American, 21, STS major at Stanford, President of BASES
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Frances Ferrell
Recreation Administration graduate from California State University, Sacramento. Last worked as Office Manager/Executive Assistant at newScale,Inc.
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Felix Mathew
Indian, 21, Vice President, BASES Entrepreneur's Challenge, Co-lead, 8th Start-Up@Singapore, Singapore's premier business plan competition. Computer Science Major, Addicted to startups and soccer