Erin Gill
University Research Associate (Junior Faculty)
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolErin Gill is a data scientist and bioinformaticist with a decade of experience applying machine learning, NLP, and data engineering to infectious disease research. As a University Research Associate at Simon Fraser University, she leads data-driven initiatives that turn complex genomics and public health data into actionable insights. At CoVaRR-Net she coordinates cross-disciplinary teams and built Python-based ML models to identify factors driving vaccine hesitancy, and developed a Flask-based web quiz to help Canadians determine COVID-19 vaccine eligibility. She has designed ETL pipelines and deployed PostgreSQL databases on AWS RDS, plus dashboards hosted on Heroku to visualize live Canadian SARS-CoV-2 case and vaccination data. With a PhD in Genetics from UBC and extensive experience across academia and biotech, Erin combines rigorous analytics with hands-on software delivery and leadership in national research initiatives.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Biochemistry and Biology (honors), BSc, Biochemistry and Biology (honors) at Dalhousie UniversityPhD, Genetics, PhD, Genetics at The University of British Columbia
French, English
Github Skills (15)
z-score6
rates5
portal4
points4
predict4
regression3
outliers3
linear-regression3
parse3
notebook2
python1
genomics1
time-series1
planning1
iqr1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
eringill/outlier_analysis
Jul 2020 - Sep 2022
Methods to automatically parse longitudinal numeric data for outliers using IQR and modified z-score, will also predict future time points using linear regression
Contributions:6 PRs, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
iqrregressionlinear-regressionpredictlinear
eringill/chronic_infection_python
Mar 2024 - Nov 2024
A simple GUI that allows users to check whether mutations from a SARS-CoV-2 genome best fit a mutational distribution of genomes derived from global, chronic, or deer infections.
Contributions:14 PRs, 118 pushes, 6 branches in 8 months
mutation-analysissars-cov-2zoonoses
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