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Swati Pande |
EARNED DEGREES
M.Sc., 2007
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Biology
M.Sc., 1996
Mumbai University
Microbiology
B.Sc., 1993
Mumbai University
Microbiology
PAST EMPLOYMENT
August 2005 to April 2007: Teaching Associate
Department of Biology, Cal Poly Pomona
February 2001 to December 2003: Research Scientist
Nicholas Piramal India Ltd., Mumbai, India
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Analysis of various state and federal accident database systems.
- Assessing driver behavior.
- Evaluation of various traffic safety countermeasures.
- Evaluation of transportation safety investments.
CURRENT OR RECENT PROJECTS
Pedestrian Behavior at Marked and Unmarked Crosswalks
Sponsor: California Department of Transportation
Safe Routes to School Local Project Evaluation
Sponsor: Bikes Belong Foundation
Pedestrian and Bicycle Crashes in a SMART corridor
Sponsor: California Department of Transportation
Training and Rider Experience Among Mature Motorcyclists in California
Sponsor: California Office of Traffic Safety
Reduce Accidents Involving Driver Fatigue
Sponsor: California Department of Transportation
Developing a Customized GIS Mapping Program for SWITRS Geocoding
Sponsor: California Office of Traffic Safety
California Strategic Highway Safety Plan
Sponsor: California Office of Traffic Safety
SAMPLE OF PUBLICATIONS
S. Pande, A. Raheja and D.R. Livesay. Prediction of Enzyme Catalytic Sites from Sequence Using Neural Networks. 2007 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
D.R. Livesay, D.J. Jacobs, J. Kanjanapangka, E. Chea, H. Cortez, J. Garcia, P. Kidd, M.P. Marquez, S. Pande, and D. Yang. Probing the conformational dependence of calculated pKa values. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation , 2006, 2(4):927-938
PRESENTATIONS
19th Annual CSU Biotechnology Symposium, January 2007, Los Angeles. Poster presentation.
IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, April 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oral presentation.
136th American Public Health Association Conference, San Diego, October 2008. Poster presentation, “A methodology for geocoding California collision data”, author.
137th American Public Health Association Conference, Philadelphia, November 2009. Poster presentation, “Safe Routes to School Nation Partnership’s Local School Project (LSP): Baseline Evaluation Results”, author.
137th American Public Health Association Conference, Philadelphia, November 2009. Poster presentation, “Training, riding and motivations among San Francisco Bay Area Motorcyclists”, author.
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES/SOFTWARE SKILLS
- SAS Certified Programmer (Base SAS), June 2007.
- SAS 9.2 and SAS 9.1: Base SAS, reports using proc tabulate, proc SQL and SAS macros.
- Stata 10: including programming in Stata.
- GIS packages: ArcGIS and Google Earth Pro.
- Scripting languages: Perl, Unix shell scripts, Python.
- Programming languages: C
- R and Matlab including Neural Network Module.
- Bioinformatics tools for multiple alignments, molecular modeling tools: installation and execution on both Unix and MacOS X platforms.