Education

In Progress

M.Sc. Computer Science
Hochschule Furtwangen University
Furtwangen, Germany

2011

B.Sc. Online Media
Hochschule Furtwangen University
Furtwangen, Germany

cum laude

Thesis: The use of Apache Mahout and the MapReduce paradigm to perform cluster analysis of big data on Amazon Web Services
Advisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Maass

Research Experience

May 2015 to
July 2022

Scholar at Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
Research Advisor: Gustavo de los Campos, PhD

Mar 2011 to
May 2015

Visiting Scientist at Department of Pathology, Division of Informatics, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
Research Advisor: Jonas Almeida, PhD

Mar 2009 to
Feb 2011

Student Research Assistant at Research Center for Intelligent Media
Furtwangen, Germany
Research Advisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Maass

Journal Publications

  1. B. D. Valente, G. de los Campos, A. Grueneberg, C.-Y. Chen, R. Ros-Freixedes, and W. O. Herring, “Using Residual Regressions to Quantify and Map Signal Leakage in Genomic Prediction,” Genetics Selection Evolution, vol. 55, no. 1, p. 57, Aug. 2023, doi: 10.1186/s12711-023-00830-1.

  2. G. de los Campos, A. Grueneberg, S. Funkhouser, P. Pérez-Rodríguez, and A. Samaddar, “Fine Mapping and Accurate Prediction of Complex Traits Using Bayesian Variable Selection Models Applied to Biobank-Size Data,” European Journal of Human Genetics, Jul. 2022, doi: 10.1038/s41431-022-01135-5.

  3. A. Gonzalez-Reymundez, A. Grueneberg, G. Lu, F. C. Alves, G. Rincon, and A. I. Vazquez, “MOSS: Multi-Omic Integration with Sparse Value Decomposition,” Bioinformatics, vol. 38, no. 10, pp. 2956–2958, May 2022, doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac179.

  4. A. Grueneberg and G. de los Campos, “BGData - A Suite of R Packages for Genomic Analysis with Big Data,” G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 1377–1383, May 2019, doi: 10.1534/g3.119.400018.

  5. M. Behring et al., “Integrated Landscape of Copy Number Variation and RNA Expression Associated with Nodal Metastasis in Invasive Ductal Breast Carcinoma,” Oncotarget, vol. 9, no. 96, pp. 36836–36848, Dec. 2018, doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.26386.

  6. H. Kim, A. Grueneberg, A. I. Vazquez, S. Hsu, and G. de los Campos, “Will Big Data Close the Missing Heritability Gap?,” Genetics, vol. 207, no. 3, pp. 1135–1145, Nov. 2017, doi: 10.1534/genetics.117.300271.

  7. H. Koo, J. A. Hakim, P. R. E. Fisher, A. Grueneberg, D. T. Andersen, and A. K. Bej, “Distribution of Cold Adaptation Proteins in Microbial Mats in Lake Joyce, Antarctica: Analysis of Metagenomic Data by Using Two Bioinformatics Tools,” Journal of microbiological methods, vol. 120, pp. 23–28, 2016.

  8. M. D. Cain, J. R. Siebert, E. Iriabho, A. Gruneberg, J. S. Almeida, and O. M. Faye-Petersen, “Development of Novel Software to Generate Anthropometric Norms at Perinatal Autopsy,” Pediatric and Developmental Pathology, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 203–209, 2015.

  9. D. E. Robbins, A. Grüneberg, H. F. Deus, M. M. Tanik, and J. S. Almeida, “A Self-Updating Road Map of The Cancer Genome Atlas,” Bioinformatics, vol. 29, no. 10, pp. 1333–1340, 2013.

  10. J. S. Almeida et al., “ImageJS: Personalized, Participated, Pervasive, and Reproducible Image Bioinformatics in the Web Browser,” Journal of pathology informatics, vol. 3, 2012.

  11. J. S. Almeida, A. Grüneberg, W. Maass, and S. Vinga, “Fractal MapReduce Decomposition of Sequence Alignment,” Algorithms for Molecular Biology, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 12, 2012.

Conference Proceedings

  1. D. E. Robbins, A. Grüneberg, H. F. Deus, M. M. Tanik, and J. Almeida, “TCGA Toolbox: An Open Web App Framework for Distributing Big Data Analysis Pipelines for Cancer Genomics,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics, 2013, p. 62.

Poster Presentations

  1. A. Grueneberg and J. Almeida, “A Minimal Governance Layer for the Web of Linked Data,” at CSHALS, Boston, MA, Feb. 2014.

Professional Experience

Jun 2004 to
Sep 2008

Web Developer at trenovis OHG
Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany

Teaching Experience

Sep 2016 to Oct 2016

R Programming: Essentials and Basics
5-week course parallel to EPI 855 ("Biostatistical Modeling in Genomic Data Analysis") led by Ana I. Vazquez, PhD in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State University

Open Source Experience

2013 to 2019

AnkiDroid, a spaced repetition flashcard app for Android with over a million users

2014 to 2015

Code for Birmingham, a Code for America brigade

Internships

Sep 2008 to
Feb 2009

Intern at CAS Software AG
Karlsruhe, Germany

Certifications

2010

Basics of Municipal Broadband Networks
Ministry for Rural Area, Food, and Consumer Protection in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Other

Citizenship

Germany

Languages

German (native), English (fluent), French (proficient), Korean (basic), Japanese (basic)