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Ahmed Mokhtar Ramzy Salem

Bioinformatican · Educator · Computational Biology Engineer

  • ahmedmokhtar2800@gmail.com
  • linkedin.com/in/ahmedmokhtar94
  • github.com/mokhtar200
  • amokhtar.live
  • Cairo, Egypt · EN · AR

Profile

Bioinformatics scientist with a biotechnology background, focused on cancer genomics and transcriptomics. MSc candidate at Cairo University; postgraduate-diploma trained at Suez Canal University. Six-plus years teaching bioinformatics — from NGS foundations to single-cell and spatial transcriptomics — and shipping reproducible R/Python pipelines for independent research and clinical collaborations.

Experience

  • Freelance Instructor · Bioinformatics & Biotechnology
    Remote · BioScience and independent cohorts
    May 2019 – present
    • Designed and delivered courses across Bioinformatics Foundations, NGS, RNA-Seq, Genomics Data Science, scRNA-Seq, and Immunogenetics.
    • Trained 1,000+ mentees and researchers across Egypt, MENA, Africa, and Europe; international cohorts and 1:1 mentoring sessions.
    • Built reproducible R/Python pipelines and project-based curricula for graduate students and biotech professionals.
  • Teaching Assistant · Biotechnology Department
    Heliopolis University, Egypt
    Feb – Jul 2023
    • Biostatistics and Research Methodology — course materials, examinations, lab supervision and faculty accreditation work.
  • Research Intern · Biomedical Research Lab
    Heliopolis University, Egypt
    Jul – Oct 2017
    • Wet-lab molecular biology and early bioinformatics workflows.

Selected Projects

  • Dual-branch autoencoder for Brassica napus — 1.89× QTL enrichment, +90.8% genomic-prediction gain over GRM-GBLUP.
  • Single-cell dissection of human invasive ductal carcinoma (10x 3′ v3.1) — Seurat / Harmony / SingleR end-to-end.
  • TAM metabolic profiling in IDC — scMetabolism + CellChat ligand–receptor crosstalk.
  • Visium spatial atlas of human breast cancer — tissue-aware QC, niche discovery, STdeconvolve.
  • DevOps-driven ML pipeline for lung-cancer scRNA-seq — Docker, MLflow, parameterized runs.
  • In-silico CRISPR-Cas9 guide design & evaluation for human TP53.

Publications

  • AcceptedComparative Genomics Analysis of Some Brassica napus Accessions — Journal of Scientific Research in Science.
  • Under reviewMulti-Dimensional TCR-β Repertoire Characterization in Anti-PD-1-Treated Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Development and Multi-Cohort Validation of the Composite Immune Reprogramming Score (CIRS) — Journal of Scientific Research in Science.