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Swati Pande
Research Associate 510-643-1770
spande@berkeley.edu
FAX: 510-643-9922

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

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.

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