Oh, hello, nice to meet you!

I'm Michael Ding.

A little about me

Hello! My name is Michael and I'm a 1B Computing and Financial Management student at the University of Waterloo. I've interned as a software developer in the past and aspire to pursue a career that will allow me to further expand my programming skillset and satiate my curiosity for learning inside and outside of a classroom.

Outside of the programming world, I'm a total coffee addict, ski and hiking enthusiast, and novice stargazer.

Past Work Experiences

Web Developer

GEBIS Toronto

Machine Learning Research Intern

Mount Sinai Hospital

Research Assistant

Mount Sinai Hospital

  • Developed low-maintenance dynamic website with blogging and e-commerce functionality using PHP, JavaScript and WordPress
  • Fulfilled user-story requirements by designing and integrating custom MySQL schemas with WooCommerce REST API
  • Developed in-house email push infrastructure triggered by WooCommerce events and deployed codebase to remote test site hosts through Git repositories and Linux SSH shell
  • Engaged in an international study applying deep learning AI to predict malignity of novel genetic variants
  • Developed data-cleansing Python scripts on over 40,000 variants
  • Decreased false-negative rate by 20% by feeding novel hospital variants into ML pipeline to reduce underfitting
  • Contacted and walked over 20 patient families through lab study consent forms
  • Manually completed novel variant assessments (NVA's) on genetic sequencing results to interpret malignity and impact of sequencing results
  • Wrote standard operating procedure (SOP) documents for daily activities performed in the lab

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    Let Connect

    I'm always on the hunt for new things to learn and love meeting new people. Find me at any of my socials below to have a coffee chat or discuss new opportunities! I'm currently looking for Winter 2022 internship experiences. I look forward to getting in touch!