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Research Interests

String matching algorithms and large database search techniques with specific application to computational biology. Specific applications emphasize large-scale software development and data mining with a focus on next-generation, short-read sequence mapping and analysis tools.

Education

University of Texas at Austin: 2010-2016
Ph.D. Computer Science

Brigham Young University: 2004-2010
B.S. Computer Science with Bioinformatics emphasis

Research and Teaching Experience

Cipher Systems, LLC

Bioinformatics Consultant

Develops industrial software for fast DNA matching and organism characterization

Sep 2011 - Dec 2012

University of Texas at Austin

Research Assistant; supervised by Dr. Daniel Miranker Metric space indexing and other database techniques and its relationship to next-generation sequence mapping		Aug 2011 - Present
Research Assistant; supervised by Dr. Tandy Warnow Producing relevant phylogenetic alignments from gappy data		Dec 2010 - Jul 2011
Teaching Assistant; CS388: Natural Language Processing Graduate course providing introduction to natural language processing, including topics such as part-of-speech tagging, semantic role labeling, and machine translation		Spring 2013
Teaching Assistant; CS378: Mobile Computing Helps students develop mobile applications on the Android device for the first time		Spring, Fall 2012
Teaching Assistant; CS303E: Elements of Computers and Programming Lead discussion section for non computer science majors		Fall 2011

Brigham Young University

Research Assistant; Computational Sciences Laboratory The GNUMAP project: designs, develops, and tests program currently used by many individuals for processing massive amounts of sequencing data Used phtreads and MPI to distribute the workload on a cluster		Apr 2008 - Present
Research Assistant; supervised by Dr. Keith Crandall Evaluated phylogenetic profiling tools		Sep 2007 - Jan 2011
Teaching Assistant; CS360: Internet Programming Assisted students in building a web server in C++ with threading		Spring 2010

Harvard University / Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Internship; Harvard/MIT Department of Health, Sciences and Technology; supervised by Dr. Peter Park

Analyzed genome diversity and its impacts on short-read sequencing

Jun 2009 - Aug 2009

Refereed Journal and Conference Publications

Nathan L. Clement, Brent A. Shepherd, Paul Bodily, Sukhbat Tumur-Ochir, Younghoon Gim, Quinn Snell, Mark J. Clement, and W. Evan Johnson. "Parallel Pair-HMM SNP Detection." Conference proceedings for the Eleventh IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB '12), held in conjunction with the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium; Shanghai, China; May 21, 2012.
N. L. Clement, M. J. Clement, Q. Snell, and W. E. Johnson "Parallel Mapping Approaches for GNUMAP." Conference proceedings for the Tenth IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB '11), held in conjunction with the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium; Anchorage, Alaska; May 16, 2011; PDF available here
N. L. Clement, Q. Snell, M. J. Clement, P. C. Hollenhorst, J. Purwar, B. J. Graves, B. R. Cairns, and W. E. Johnson, "The GNUMAP algorithm: unbiased probabilistic mapping of oligonucleotides from next-generation sequencing," Bioinformatics, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 38–45, 2010; PDF available here

Formal Presentations	"Next-Generation Sequence Mapping Techniques." Invited presentation at Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI); BGI- Shenzhen; Shenzhen, China	May 24, 2012
	"Pairallel Pair-HMM SNP Detection." Eleventh IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB ‘12); Shanghai, China	May 21, 2012
	"Parallel Mapping Approaches for GNUMAP." Tenth IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB ‘11); Anchorage, AK	May 16, 2012
	"The Needle in a Haystack: Finding what makes you unique." Spring Research Conference; Brigham Young University; Provo, UT	Mar 20, 2010
	"The GNUMAP Project: Unbiased Probabilistic Mapping of Oligonucleotides from Next-Generation Sequencing and Applications." Biology Department weekly seminar series; University of Utah; Salt Lake City, UT	Dec 4, 2009
	"GNUMAP: Unbiased Probabilistic Mapping of Next-Generation Sequencing Reads." 17th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB ’09); Stockholm, Sweden	Jul 1, 2009

Awards and Honors

Awarded Honorable Mention for 2012 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Selected as American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) member, Summer 2011 - Summer 2012
Awarded Honorable Mention for 2011 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Received 2004 Heritage Scholarship (4-year, full-tuition)

Volunteer Experience	Executive Committee Chair for Graduate Representative Association of Computer Sciences (GRACS) executive committee at the University of Texas at Austin	Jan 2011 - Present
	Mentor at Boys and Girls Club of Austin	Sep 2011 - Dec 2011
	Co-President of Brigham Young University Bioinformatics Research Group	Aug 2009 - Aug 2010
	Full-time Volunteer Representative for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints	Aug 2005 - Aug 2007