Anshul Nigham

I'm a Computer Science (Ph.D) graduate from the Singapore-MIT Alliance programme at the National University of Singapore. For a living, I currently convert caffeine into code at Google.

Work

I've worked with IBM's Tivoli group, developing for their single sign-on application and associated services.

I spent a little time working for Efficient Frontier, developing algorithms for Internet marketing using search and display advertising, and Yahoo! on their advertising platforms team.

At Google, I work on the search ads serving team.

School

In grad school, I did research on algorithms and applications in Structural Computational Biology. My advisors were David Hsu and Tomas Lozano-Perez.

My research focused on algorithms for analysing and organising biological data, mainly protein structures. Interesting bits:

• Protein conformational flexibility
• Characterizing the conformational space of proteins

Teaching

I have been a teaching assistant for the following courses:

• CS1102C, Data Structures and Algorithms, Fall 2007 / Spring 2008
• SMA5508, Pervasive Human-centric Computing, Spring 2003
• SMA5513, Computational Biology, Spring 2004

Projects

• I wrote an Android app that shows random messages from BSD's fortune program.
• I wrote write-only, a web-based writing application.
• I taught an introductory Python class at Stanford's ESP Splash program with Rob Tirrell. Resources here.
• I wrote a small plugin to allow TiddlyWiki to act as a blog, which can be found here [This was for an old version of TiddlyWiki and is probably obsolete at this point].

Elsewhere on the web

• Blog
• Flickr Photos
• LinkedIn profile
• Bookmarks

Contact