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Education

• B.A. in Chemical and Physical Biology, Secondary in Statistics, Harvard University, 2023
• Candidate for M.Phil. in Biological Science (MRC-LMB), University of Cambridge, 2024

Work experience

• Summer 2018: Summer Research Intern
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • Studied the spread of infectious diseases on a cruise ship
  • Supervisors: Prof. Dmitry Korkin, Dr. Suhas Srinisvasan
• Summer 2020 - Spring 2023: Research Assistant
  • Harvard College, Harvard University
  • Computationally and experimentally probed the conformational dynamics of PTP-1B and MPro
  • Supervisors: Prof. Doeke Hekstra, Maggie Klureza
• Summer 2023: Research Assistant I
  • Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Used cryo-ET to study the overall architecture of the kinetochore
  • Supervisor: Prof. Stephen Harrison
• Fall 2023 - Summer 2024: Master’s student
  • MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge
  • Investigated the coordination of kinesin-1 and dynein by JIP1 and JIP3
  • Supervisors: Dr. Andrew Carter, Dr. Sami Chaaban
• Fall 2024 - Present: PhD student
  • Harvard Biophysics Program, Harvard University

Publications

Innovating a Centuries-Old Sport: How Emerging Data Analytics Tools Are Redefining Cricket

Shah, K. M., & Saeed, A. A. (2023). Innovating a Centuries-Old Sport: How Emerging Data Analytics Tools Are Redefining Cricket. Harvard Data Science Review, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.1162/99608f92.1ea13423

Mapping protein conformational landscapes from crystallographic drug fragment screens

Saeed, A.A., Klureza, M.A., and Hekstra, D.R. (2024). Mapping protein conformational landscapes from crystallographic drug fragment screens. bioRxiv, 2024.2007.2029.605395. 10.1101/2024.07.29.605395.

Teaching

College Python Boot Camp

Stat110: Introduction to Probability Theory

Stat111: Introduction to Statistical Inference

Service

• Director of Kesem Harvard Undergraduate (2022-23)