Dr Mohammad Ferdosi

Research Fellow - Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit (AGBU)

Mohammad Ferdosi

Phone: +61 02 6773 5803

Email: mferdos3@une.edu.au

Biography

Mohammad Ferdosi is a Senior Research Fellow at AGBU. He received a PhD degree in animal breeding from the University of New England in 2016. He has been working on imputation, haplotype inference and their applications in animal breeding. Currently, he is working on the development of new algorithms for analysing the genomic data. He is also the author of the R package, HSPhase.

Qualifications

2006 Bachelor of Animal Science, Shahid Bahonar  University of Kerman, Iran

2009 Master of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran

2016 Doctor of Philosophy, University of New England, Australia

Awards

Armidale Animal Breeding Trust (AABT) Publication Awards (2017)

Research Interests

Mohammad is working on the development of new algorithms for analysing the genome structure.

  • Development of likelihood based algorithms
  • Improve the performance of algorithms both from mathematical and code optimisation aspects
  • Haplotype inference and imputation
  • Estimation of recombination
  • Mathematical equation development
  • Genomic selection and prediction
  • Parentage algorithms
  • Estimation of breed composition using SNP data
  • Population Admixture