Iñaki Amatria Barral

Personal details

• Date of birth: 17/12/1999
• Nationality: Spanish
• Gender: male
• Driving license: yes
• Mail: i.amatria@udc.es
• GitHub: amatria

Education and training

• (2022-current) Ph.D. in computer science @ Universidade da Coruña (A Coruña)
• (2021-2022) M.S. in high-performance computing @ Universidade da Coruña (A Coruña)
• (2017-2021) B.S. in computer science @ Universidade da Coruña (A Coruña)

Publications

• Parallel construction of RNA databases for extensive lncRNA-RNA interaction prediction

  Iñaki Amatria-Barral, Jorge González-Domínguez and Juan Touriño, Proocedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (In press)

• PATO: Genome-wide prediction of lncRNA-DNA triple helices

  Iñaki Amatria-Barral, Jorge González-Domínguez and Juan Touriño, Bioinformatics, 39(3):btad134, March 2023

• pRIblast: A highly efficient parallel application for comprehensive lncRNA-RNA interaction prediction

  Iñaki Amatria-Barral, Jorge González-Domínguez and Juan Touriño, Future Generation Computer Systems, 138:270-279, January 2023

Work experience

• (2019-2020) Software engineer @ Nomasystems SL (A Coruña)

  developed and deployed a quality assurance pipeline for an iOS app used by millions around the globe

• (2019-2021) Research intern @ Universidade da Coruña (A Coruña)

  conducted a successful research project in the fields of bioinformatics and high-performance computing and recorded results within a paper

• (2019-2023) Mentor @ Universidade da Coruña (A Coruña)

  served as a positive social and academic role-model by supporting mentees with their involvement on campus

• (2021-2022) Research assistant @ Universidade da Coruña (A Coruña)
• (2022-current) Research assistant @ Universidade da Coruña (A Coruña)

  funded by the Ministry of Education of Spain (grant FPU21/00491)

Open source contributions

• UDC-GAC/pato: PATO: high PerformAnce TriplexatOr [Maintainer]
• UDC-GAC/pRIblast: a highly efficient, parallel application for lncRNA-RNA interaction prediction [Maintainer]
• otland/forgottenserver: a free and open-source MMORPG server emulator written in C++ [Contributor]
• biopython/biopython: Python tools for computational molecular biology [First-time contributor]

Other projects

• (2020-current) yonunca: a lightweight, mobile-first drinking game web application
• (2021-current) pide-tu-cancion: a simple web application to take song requests