scott alexander malec : Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Scott Alexander Malec
1819 Augusta Drive, Apt #316 Houston, TX 77057, United States
(412) 330-7082 (cell/home)
scott.malec@gmail.com || scott.malec@uth.tmc.edu
March 6th, 1975, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Spouse: Jimena Salas Aguilar
Children: Ada and Simon
Scholarly Interests
literature-based discovery; statistical computing; computational narratology.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Health Informatics)
School of Biomedical Informatics
UTHealth (Houston, TX), expected ~ (December) 2017
Master of Science in Information Technology
H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management,
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA), May 2010
(2010) Explorations of 3-Tier Architecture and the MVC pattern with Dr. Janusz Szczypula, Carnegie Mellon University. Wrote extensive documentation and performed systems development for a national aviation technician and technician instructor database and an associated web-based interface using PHP, MySQL, MDB2-Pear, Apache, Linux, and web standards (CSS3, Dublin Core, HTML 5.0).
Master of Library and Information Science
School of Library and Information Science (digital librarianship specialization)
University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA), December 2003
Post-Baccalaureate work
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA), Russian Language and Literature
(with focus in Humanities Computing applications)
Bachelor of Arts (Languages and Humanities)
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA, December 1996
High School Diploma
General McLane High School, Edinboro, PA, June 1993
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant
Carnegie Mellon University, H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 5/2010-8/2010
· Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Database Management
Honors and Awards
Denton A. Cooley, MD Transformation & Hope Scholarship Fund (2015 UTHealth [SBMI])
Travel scholarship from the University of Pittsburgh to attend Computational Humanities conference in Duisburg, Germany (2001 UPitt)
ΗΣΦ - Eta Sigma Phi International Honor Society for Students of Latin and Greek (1999 UPitt)
ΦΣΙ – Phi Sigma Iota International Foreign Language Honor Society (1996 EUP)
Languages
English: native; Russian, Spanish: intermediate reading, writing, listening and speaking; working knowledge of Arabic, German, Hebrew, and Serbo-Croatian.
Publications
Github repository: http://github.com/kingfish777 (not all repositories are public)
Malec, S., Daranyi, S., Cohen, T. Widdows, D.(2016)
“Using Graded Vectors to Represent the Structure of Russian Magic Tales.” For Quantum Interaction conference 2016 (submitted for conference peer review)
Malec, S., Wei, P., Xu, Hua, Bernstam, E. V., Cohen, T. (2016)
Literature-Based Discovery of Confounding in Observational Clinical Data. For AMIA
2016 (submitted for conference peer review)
Malec, S. (2010)
“AutoPropp: Toward the Automatic Markup, Classification, and Annotation of Russian Magic Tales.” In first AMICUS workshop. http://ilk.uvt.nl/amicus/WS01-presentations/Malec.pdf
Lendvai, P., Declerck, T., Daranyi, S., Gervás, P., Hervás, R., Malec, S., & Peinado, F. (2010).
“Integration of Linguistic Markup into Semantic Models of Folk Narratives: The Fairy Tale Use Case.” In LREC. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2010/summaries/654.html
Lendvai, P., Declerck, T., Daranyi, S., Malec, S. (2010)
“Propp Revisited: Integration of Linguistic Markup into Structured Content Descriptors of Tales”. In Digital Humanities Conference Proceedings. Oxford University Press. http://www.dfki.de/lt/bibtex.php?id=4720
Malec, S. (2001)
"Proppian Structural Analysis and XML Modeling.” CLiP (Computers, Literature and Philology) Conference. Conference Proceedings of CLiP. Duisburg, Germany. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247286265_Proppian_Structural_Analysis_and_XML_Modeling
Presentations
Malec, Scott. “Literature-Based Discovery of Confounding in Observational Clinical Data” to be presented at Statistical Society of America (Houston Chapter), May 12th, Rice University, Houston, TX
Malec, Scott. “Building Bayesian Causal Models from *omics Data, a preliminary report.” Poster Session, UTHealth. Houston, TX. December 14th, 2015.
Malec, Scott. “Using Biomedical Literature to Control for Confounding.” Pharmacovigilance Group, UTHealth. Houston, TX. December 11th, 2015.
Malec, Scott; Cohen, Trevor, Widdows, Dominic, Darányi, Sándor. (presented in absentia by Dominic Widdows) “Landing Propp in Interaction Space: First Steps Toward Scalable Open Domain Narrative Analysis With Predication-based Semantic Indexing” at Quantum Interaction conference. Felsbach, Switzerland. July 16th, 2015.
Malec, Scott. “Science, Python, R, and ‘Py-lingualism’”. Houston Python Users Group. Houston, TX. December 16th, 2014.
Malec, Scott. “Decoding Fedspeak II”. Houston R Users Group. StartHouston. Houston, TX. December 1st, 2014.
Malec, Scott. “Decoding Fedspeak: Unraveling the obfuscation of Federal Reserve Chairmen through the Decades with Topic Models, Market Indicators, Time Series Data, and Data Visualization in d3.js.” Pittsburgh R Users Group. Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA. November 3rd, 2013.
Malec, Scott. “Introduction to Text Mining in R.” Pittsburgh R Users Group. Manufacturing Science Associations. Pittsburgh, PA. August 1st, 2013.
Malec, Scott. “AutoPropp: Toward the Automatic Markup, Classification, and Annotation of Russian Magic Tales.” AMICUS Workshop. Vienna, Austria. October 21st, 2010.
Malec, Scott. "Proppian Structural Analysis and XML Modeling," presentation delivered at the CLiP (Computers, Literature and Philology) Conference. Duisburg, Germany. December 8th, 2001.
Scholarly and Professional Memberships
AAAI/American Association for Artificial Intelligence (since 2010); ACM/Association for Computing Machinery (2010); ACL/Association for Computational Linguistics (2010); Houston R Users Group (2014); Pittsburgh R Users Group (2013); AMIA/American Association for Medical Informatics (2015); Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society/HiMSS (2016)
Community Service
International Center of Erie and the Erie Public Library, 6/1995-12/1998 (intermittently)
Jewish Community Center, Pittsburgh, PA (citizenship skills), 9/1999-4/2000
Technical Skills
· Professional Programming: R, SQL, Java, Python, C, shell scripting
· Applications: Cytoscape, MySQL workbench, Eclipse, rstudio, vi, emacs, MS Office
· Platforms: Linux (CentOS, Mint, Ubuntu, others), Mac, Windows
Employment History
Scientific Programmer II
University of Texas Health Science Center, School of Biomedical Informatics, Center for Decision Making, Houston, TX: 9/2014-Present
· Analyze, Develop, Maintain, Test and Debug Semantic Vector Space Architecture systems for purpose for purposes of Information Retrieval, Data Visualization, and Literature-Based Discovery of Novel Therapies and Adverse Drug Events in EHR
Software Engineer
M*Modal, Pittsburgh, PA: 12/2013-9/2014
· Debug, maintain, trouble-shoot automatic speech recognition system operations
PL/SQL and Java Developer
US Steel Corporation, Order to Cash, Pittsburgh, PA: 3/2011-10/2013
· Analyzed, designed, developed, maintained, tested and debugged database objects (stored procedures, views, etc.) for enterprise-wide sales order entry system
· Tested and populated implementation of database interface between Oracle Enterprise Business Suite (OEBS), sales order repository and legacy information systems
· Worked with various stages of SOA/web services/BPEL implementation
Software Systems Engineer
Carnegie Mellon University, Advancement Division, Pittsburgh, PA: 8/2006-3/2011
· Developed and maintained stored procedures in PL/SQL for custom reports
· Developed and maintained ad hoc reports using SQL and Crystal Reports
· Analyzed logs from request tracking system using Weka Data Miner
· Reverse engineered reports in legacy formats into Crystal Reports
Quality Rater
Google, Inc: 1/2005-2/2006
· Evaluated the quality of query/result pairs on a web-based project for Google
Research Associate
Carnegie Mellon University, Advancement Division, Pittsburgh, PA: 2/2005-8/2006
· Identified, evaluated, and researched individuals and organizations of high net worth
· Produced written reports for the use of development personnel in fundraising activities
Paralegal
Thorp Reed & Armstrong. Wheeling, WV: 9/2004-2/2005
· Created metadata for multi-lingual scientific documents in support of litigation
Web Support Engineer
Duquesne University, Gumberg Library, Pittsburgh, PA: 5/2004-9/2004
· Provided support for Integrated Library System back-end (MySQL)
· Reconfigured Gumberg library website with content management system (CMS)
Librarian (internship)
IRETA, Pittsburgh, PA: 5/2003-5/2004
· Implemented LAMP-based open-Source Integrated Library System called Koha for special library on substance abuse
Software Engineer (work study)
University of Pittsburgh, Learning Research Development Center, Pittsburgh, PA: 9/2001-4/2002
Slavic Video Cataloger (work study)
University of Pittsburgh, Hillman Library, Pittsburgh, PA: 5/2001-9/2001
Web Master (work study)
Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA: 9/2000-4/2001
Web Master (work study)
Early Slavic Studies Association, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA: 9/1999-4/2002
· Maintained pages in valid, well-formed HTML
Certifications
· Coursera, Data Scientists Toolbox (July, 2014)
· IBM SPSS Data Mart and Regression (March 2010)
· Oracle PL/SQL 10g (May 2008) & Oracle SQL 10g (October 2006)
Hobbies
· reading (literary theory, folklore, linguistics, mathematics, cognitive and computer science); bicycling; hiking; cooking; language games with my children; travel
References
Trevor Cohen, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
UTHealth
School of Biomedical Informatics
7000 Fannin St, Suite #165
Houston, TX 77030
713.486.3675
Sándor Darányi, PhD
Professor
University of Borås
Department of Library and Information Science
Borås, Sweden
033.4354679
Charles Welsh, PhD
Assistant Professor
Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences
Biology Department
Duquesne University
E102A Fisher Hall
Pittsburgh, PA
412.396.2306