H Md. Hafijur Rahman

Md. Hafijur Rahman

MSc student in Biomedical Technology, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir. Virology and vaccine development at the bench; immunopeptidomics and protein machine learning on the computer.

Every letter of my name is a valid amino-acid code. J stands for leucine or isoleucine — the pair a mass spectrometer cannot tell apart.

Portrait of Md. Hafijur Rahman
3peer-reviewed papers
2MSc degrees
1vaccine taken to trial
C1English & Turkish

Two sides of one question

At the bench

I have propagated and attenuated a wild fowlpox virus isolate into a candidate vaccine and taken it through a chicken trial with antibody analysis — alongside molecular biology, microbiology and in vitro work.

On the computer

I build and audit models for immunopeptidomics and protein biology, with a focus on reproducibility — preregistration, decision logs and keeping withdrawn results on the record.

Selected work

Attenuated fowlpox vaccine

Virology · 2023–2024

A wild isolate attenuated by serial passage in embryonated eggs, formulated with an adjuvant and tested in chickens.

Sequence-only CNN benchmark

Immunopeptidomics · preregistered

Can a 1D CNN tell real HLA class-I peptides from decoys, and how does it compare with published predictors on identical rows?

Bacterial HLA ligand audit

MSc thesis · computational

Error-controlled reanalysis of tumour immunopeptidomes, asking how many bacterial peptide claims survive proper controls.

SH3 mechanism atlas

Protein ML · ESM-2

Does a cancer mutation break an SH3 domain's fold or change its binding? Predicting one, and quantifying why the other can't yet be predicted.