Carolyn Cooper

Sorry, this is very old and needs to be updated. Some day there will be time...

After leaving JHU, I went to work in Jan 2004 for Welch Consulting in DC.

Then I went to work as a quantitative analyst for a hedge fund in New York City called Spring Mountain Capital. I was there from August 2006 to July 2008.

Currently I am a hedge fund analyst at HSBC. I am so lucky, not only to still have a job in the shrinking hedge fund industry, but to have an interesting fun job in finance, not many people can say that.

Here's the unedited old stuff:

I joined the Computer Science department in Fall 2000.
My research interests are primarily in Computational Biology, but I am also very fond of Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms.

I received my bachelors degree also from Johns Hopkins University, in 1996, but in the Mathematical Sciences department. Then I was off to the University of Southern California, where I worked with Mike Waterman and received a M.S. in Applied Mathematics in 1998. Fall 1998-Spring 2000 I spent back in the Mathematical Sciences department here at JHU, where I just received a M.S.E. degree.

I've been doing some jumping around but I am planning on staying in the Computer Science department for the next few years and finishing a Ph.D. degree.

Right now I am working with Mike Betenbaugh in the Chemical Engineering department. We are working on new ways to analyze gene expression data.

I've also been working on a project with Christian Scheideler this semester (Spring 2001). We've been trying to extend some results of an adversarial routing algorithm.

AND, I've started working on a new method for aligning protein sequences with George Rose, Teresa Przytycka, Lenore Cowen, and Christian Scheideler. We are having way too much fun!

I had a great opportunity to work at Genetics Institute last summer. I worked with Donna Slonim on gene expression analysis. I wrote some programs I plan to put up here at some point.

Here are some links for protein programs and databases that you might find useful.

If you're trying to find me during the day, email is the best way: cooper at cs.jhu.edu.
You can try calling me at either 410 516-3937 or 410 516-8291.