Michelle Ragsac
Postdoctoral Scholar at Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichelle Ragsac is a PhD-level bioinformatics scientist and data science leader dedicated to advancing bioinformatics and data-driven biology. Currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at UC San Diego Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, she leads data-intensive projects, supervises three graduate students on key PhD milestones, and collaborates across academia and industry. Her industry experience includes Senior Data Scientist at Empirico where she built single-cell RNA-sequencing pipelines on Databricks/AWS in containerized environments and enhanced pre-processing with QC via PCA and differential expression analyses using PyDESeq2, and a role as Subject Matter Expert at Sepal AI guiding bioinformatics, molecular biology, and data science for AI projects. Her PhD work spans high-throughput screening of notochord regulatory elements in Ciona intestinalis and single-cell transcriptomics of embryonic development, translating complex biology into scalable computational workflows. Based in San Diego, she has demonstrated leadership in Agile-like project management and onboarding documentation, and she actively communicates scientific findings to diverse audiences. She earned a BS in Bioengineering with a focus in bioinformatics and a BISB PhD from UC San Diego.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoCentral Middle SchoolNo Degree, Histoire de l'Art, Exchange Student, No Degree, Histoire de l'Art, Exchange Student at University of CaliforniaHigh School Diploma, General Studies, High School Diploma, General Studies at San Mateo High School
English, French
Github Skills (39)
bioinformatics9
computational-biology9
systems-biology9
population-genetics8
transcriptomics8
biology8
cells8
genetics8
single-cell-analysis7
functional-genomics7
quantitative7
genomics7
test-app7
fasta6
pypi6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
biom262/cmm262-2021
Dec 2020 - Mar 2021
The course repository for CMM262 for Winter 2021
Contributions:88 commits, 17 PRs, 44 pushes in 3 months
winter
mragsac/BISB-Bootcamp-2021
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
FA2021 Bootcamp course website for the incoming cohort of the Bioinformatics & Systems Biology Ph.D. program
Contributions:61 commits, 10 PRs, 39 pushes in 5 months
incomingbiologysystems-biologybioinformaticscourse-website
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