Entrepreneur / software engineer / educator

Adrian is a social entrepreneur, software engineer, and activist. He is CEO and co-founder of TOTAGO (Turn Off The App – Go Outside), which connects people with nature. Previously, Adrian was a data scientist at the United Nations Foundation and a lead engineer at Socrata, a startup in Seattle, at the intersection of open data and government. Adrian is a published scientific author in the fields of computational biology and public health. He grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and before Detroit, he lived in Seattle, Ecuador, and London. He speaks Spanish and loves to travel, ride bikes, and refresh his mind in nature.

Education | Employment | Awards and honors | Leadership Activities | Publications | Presentations | Contact

Education

University of Washington

Seattle, Washington (September 2008–June 2013)

• B.S. Computer Science and B.S. Biology
• Honors Program
• 3.75 GPA

Fluent in oral and written Spanish

Employment

See my LinkedIn Profile.

Awards and honors

• SHIFT Conference – Technology Award, TOTAGO recognized for innovative, impactful and replicable contributions to conservation through outdoor recreation
• Ordal Award, best undergraduate research paper University of Washington Department of Microbiology (2013)
• Mary Gates Research Scholar (2012)
• Google Summer of Code Scholar for continuation of project at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) (2011)
• Levinson Scholar (2010)
• Google Summer of Code Scholar for project at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) (2010)
• Mary Gates Research Scholar (2010)
• University of Washington Dean’s List (2008, 2009, 2010)
• Biomedical Computation at Stanford (BCATS) refereed travel award (2009)
• Research funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) (2009)
• $20,000 University of Washington Honors Achievement Award (2008)
• $1,865 in prototype funding from the UW College of Engineering for the UW Environmental Innovation Challenge (2008)
• Arizona Governor’s Future Innovator of the Year Award (2008)
• Tucson High Magnet School Academic Achievement Scholarship (2008)
• Tucson High Magnet School Science Student of the Year (2008)
• 2nd place at Southern Arizona Regional Science and Engineering Fair (SARSEF) (2008)
• Finalist presenter at the Arizona Junior Sciences and Humanities Symposium (2008)

Leadership Activities

• Sunrise Movement (June 2017 – Present)
  • IT Wizard volunteer
  • Help build, maintain, and increase engagement on sunrisemovement.org
• University of Washington Pipeline Project (April 2010–June 2010 and March 2011 – December 2012)
  • Developed curriculum and taught JavaScript programming to students at Roosevelt High School
  • Volunteer Biology tutor at Garfield High School
• Bryant Elementary School (April 2009–June 2009)
  • Volunteer mentor for student science projects
• WashPIRG at University of Washington (September 2008–January 2010)
  • Textbook Affordability Team
  • New Voter Registration Project
• University of Washington Dream Project (September 2008–November 2009)
  • Mentored students at Foster High School
  • Dream Project Grants Writing Team
• Guatemala Acupuncture and Medical Aid Project (November 2007–Present)
  • Volunteer web designer/developer
• Asylum Program of Arizona (September 2006–September 2008)
  • Volunteer web designer and computer technician

Publications

• Laurenzi A, Brownstein M, Turner AM, Kirchhoff K (2013) Integrated Post-Editing and Translation Management for Lay User Communities. Proceedings of AMTA 2013 Workshop on Post-Editing Technology and Practice, in press.
• Laurenzi A, Samudrala R, Hung LH (2013) Structure Prediction of Partial Length Protein Sequences. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 14(7) pp. 14892-14907.
• Laurenzi A, Brownstein M, Turner AM, Kientz JA, Kirchhoff K (2013) A Web-Based Collaborative Translation Management System for Public Health Workers. Proceedings of CHI ’13, pp. 511-516.
• Horst JA, Laurenzi A, Bernard B, Samudrala R (2012) Computational multitarget drug discovery. Polypharmacology, pp. 263-301.
• Buttrick B, Laurenzi AA, Horst JA, Samudrala R (2010) Functional site prediction with Meta-Functional Signatures and homologous ligand-bound structures. CASP9 Abstract Book, pp. 224-225.
• Kutrzeba LM, Zjawiony JK, Koo HJ, McDowell E, Laurenzi A, Gang DR, Dayan FE (2009) Biosynthesis of Salvinorin A: Overexpression and Biochemical Characterization of Carboxy Methyltransferase from EST of Salvia divinorum Glands [conference abstract]. Planta Medica 7(4): pp. 431.

Presentations

• Liberating Government Data with FME Cloud [oral presentation]. FME World Tour, Seattle, WA. April 2015.
• A Web-Based Collaborative Translation Management System for Public Health Workers [poster presentation]. ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Paris, France. April 27 – May 2, 2013.
• Automatic detection and correction of errors in statistical machine translation output for translation of public health materials from English to Spanish [poster presentation]. Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. May 18, 2012.
• Improving EST annotation with protein structure prediction software [poster presentation]. PDB40 Symposium, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY. October 28-30, 2011.
• Application of protein structure prediction software for EST data [oral presentation]. Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. May 19, 2011.
• Understanding life at the atomic level. Paws-on-Science Huskies Weekend at the Pacific Science Center, Seattle, WA. April 9, 2011. exhibit.
• Computational prediction of partial structures of proteins encoded by ESTs [poster presentation]. Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. May 20, 2010.
• Understanding life at the atomic level. Paws-on-Science Huskies Weekend at the Pacific Science Center, Seattle, WA. April 10, 2010. exhibit.
• Computational prediction of drug side effects by identifying human antitargets [poster presentation]. Biomedical Computation at Stanford (BCATS), Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. November 7, 2009. invited.
• A computational approach for selecting protein targets in Plasmodium falciparum to pursue in antimalarial drug development [poster presentation]. Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. May 15, 2009.
• Identification of the diterpene synthase in Salvia divinorum used to synthesize salvinorin A [oral presentation]. Arizona Junior Sciences and Humanities Symposium (AZJSHS). Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ. April 2008.

Contact Information

Email: adrian.laurenzi [at] gmail.com

Secondary Email: adrian.laurenzi [at] socrata.com

Cell phone: (520) 971-3241