Simona Cristea
Head Of Data Science In The Hale Center For Pancreatic Cancer
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolSimona Cristea is a data science leader in cancer research, currently Head of Data Science in the Hale Center for Pancreatic Cancer at Dana-Farber, based in Boston. Over a decade she has built and led computational biology programs applying machine learning, big data, and multi-modal EHR analysis to pancreatic cancer and beyond. She guides cross-disciplinary teams in designing and implementing data-driven strategies, from integrative single-cell genomics to stochastic models of tumor evolution. Her work includes a first-author, highly cited Nature Communications 2018 paper on single-cell malignant profiles and metabolic signatures in breast cancer. She holds a PhD in Computational Cancer Genomics from ETH Zürich and an MS in Bioinformatics, with early achievements as an iGEM winner and systems biology researcher. Simona's focus is turning complex cancer data into actionable insights, using LLMs and advanced analytics to accelerate translational oncology.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
ETH Zürich
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
bioconductor9
bioinformatics6
single-cell-genomics6
genomics6
datasets6
cran6
ppi4
gene-expression4
rnaseq3
seq3
rna-seq3
bayesian2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cbg-ethz/TiMEx
Jul 2015 - Nov 2018
Bioconductor package for finding mutually exclusive groups of alterations in large cancer datasets
Contributions:50 commits, 11 PRs, 24 pushes in 3 years 4 months
groupsexclusivefindingbioconductorcancer
Michorlab/tnbc_scrnaseq
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:51 commits, 8 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 month
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