Adrian V. Dalca

I am a graduate student at MIT, advised by Dr. Polina Golland. My main research work is on algorithm development in medical imaging analysis. I've also been very fortunate to work in Bioinformatics with professor Michael Brudno at UofT and in geophysics with professor Jerry Mitrovica at UofT. My fiancee is also at MIT, and you'd surely be enriched by visiting her webpage (I mean, come on, how many bio students have a webpage anyway?).

Randoms

• IAP Project: High Altitude Balloon Launch in March, 2012, with Michael Rubinstein.
• 3D Slicer tutorial for visualizing timelapses.

Quick C.V.

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD candidate. current. GPA: 5.0 / 5.0
• University of Toronto, M.Sc. 2010. GPA: 4.0 / 4.0.
• University of Toronto, B.Sc. 2008. GPA: 3.98 / 4.0

(Refereed) Publications and Presentations

Including only peer reviewed full papers in journals or conference proceedings. (*) indicates presenting author.

• A.V. Dalca*; Giovanna Danagoulian; Ron kikinis; Ehud Schmidt; Polina Golland. (2011) Segmentation of Nerve Bundles and Ganglia in Spine MRI using Particle Filters. MICCAI 2011, LNCS, vol. 6893, pp 537-545. Pub Med ID: 22003741
  • Poster Presentation at MICCAI 2011
• A.V. Dalca*; Stephen M. Rumble; Samuel Levy; Michael Brudno. (2010) VARiD: A variation detection framework for color-space and letter-space platforms.
  Bioinformatics 26: i343-i349.. Pub Med ID: 20529926 | Website
  • Oral presentations at ISMB 2010 and ISMB 2009 Short Sig
  • Poster presentations at ISMB 2010 and ISMB 2009 Short Sig
• A.V. Dalca and M. Brudno. (2010) Genome Variation Discovery with High Throughput Sequencing Data.
  Briefings in Bioinformatics. 11. p3-14. Pub Med ID: 20053733
• S.M. Rumble, P. Lacroute, A.V. Dalca, M. Fiume, A. Sidow, M. Brudno. (2009) SHRiMP Accurate Mapping of Short Color-space Reads.
  PLoS Comput Biol. 5(5). Pub Med ID: 19461883 | Website
• A. V. Dalca* and M. Brudno. (2008) FRESCO: Flexible Alignment with Rectangle Scoring Schemes.
  Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. 13. p3-14. Pub Med ID: 18229672 | Website
  • Oral presentation at PSB 2008
  • Poster presentations at RECOMB workshop 2006, PSB 2009, RECOMB-GE 2010

Latest Awards

• Morris Joseph Levin Award for best thesis presentation at Masterworks (2012)
• NSERC (Alexander Graham Bell) Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-D) (2012 - 2014, Value:35,000 CAD/year)
• Barbara J. Weedon Fellowship. (2012, Value:64,448 USD)
• NSERC (Alexander Graham Bell) Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-M) (2008 - 2010, Value:17,500 CAD/year)
• Harvard EPS Pierce Scholarship Admission Scholarship (2009, Declined in favour of MIT, Value: 18,000 USD)
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2008, Declined in favour of NSERC CGS; Value: 15,000 CAD)
• Halen Sawyer Hogg Graduate Admission Award (2008, Value: 8,000 CAD)
• Graduating Prince Philip Gold Medal (2008)