Principal Investigator
Dr. Arun S. Moorthy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Forensic Science at Trent University. He received his B.Eng. (Chemical and Bioengineering) from McMaster University in 2010, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. (Biophysics) from the University of Guelph in 2012/2015. Arun then spent 1-year as a Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Food Science at the University of Guelph, and 7-years (2016 – 2023) as a Mathematical Statistician in the Mass Spectrometry Data Center at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Current Staff and Trainees
Trainee: Lisa Ramsamy (Forensic Science)
Position: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Start: November 2023
Project: Evaluating similarity metrics for DART-MS spectra using the ForeST(c) database
Trainee: Abigail Varga (Forensic Science)
Position: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Start: May 2024
Project: Constructing a mathematical model of “spectral uniqueness” using the ForeST(c) database
Trainee: Claudia Burchat (Forensic Science)
Position: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Start: May 2024
Project: Mass spectral similarity mapping applied to DART-MS spectra using the ForeST(c) database
Trainee: Jesse Fraser (Applied Modelling and Quantitative Methods)
Position: Graduate Research Assistant
Start: May 2024
Project: Software support for CRAFTS lab
Trainee: Dr. Thulasi Jegatheesan
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Start: May 2024
Project: A comprehensive evaluation of machine learning approaches for identification and classification using the ForeST(c) database
Trainee: Adrian Borlestean
Position: Research Associate
Start: May 2024
Project: An optimized data retrieval and evaluation system for improved utility of the ForeST(c) database
Former Students and Trainees
Trainee: Christine Ogunsola (General Engineering)
Position 1: Intern, NIST-Montgomery College Professional Research Experience Program
Position 2: Undergraduate Research Fellow, NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program
Duration: August 2021 – August 2022
Project 1: Validating metadata in mass spectral reference libraries
Project 2: Compound selection strategies when building forensics databases
Trainee: Stephen Tennyson (Computer Science)
Position: Intern, NIST-University of Maryland Professional Research Experience Program
Co-supervisor: Dr. Edward Sisco (NIST)
Duration: June 2021 – June 2022
Project: Developing usable software for analyzing DART-MS drug data
Trainee: Adam Broerman (Chemical and Bioengineering)
Position: Undergraduate Research Fellow, NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program
Duration: June 2018 – August 2018
Project: A software pipeline for mass spectrometry-based metabolomics
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