Abhishek Biswas
Senior Research Software Engineer at Princeton University
Hopatcong, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolAbhishek Biswas is a Senior Research Software Engineer at Princeton with a decade of experience building high-performance, parallelized analytics pipelines for large-scale biological data. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has a track record at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Princeton developing GPU-accelerated, MPI/OpenMP/TBB-enabled tools for metagenome binning, CryoEM analysis, and 3D confocal reconstruction. Equally comfortable in C++ and Python, he blends deep systems and HPC expertise with practical skills in cloud environments, Linux administration, and data science tools like MATLAB and R. His publications in leading bioinformatics journals reflect a rare combination of academic rigor and production-grade software engineering. Notably, he has repeatedly translated research prototypes into scalable pipelines, optimizing both algorithmic performance and deployability.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, 78%, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, 78% at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityPh.D., Computer Science, 3.98, Ph.D., Computer Science, 3.98 at Old Dominion University
Github Skills (16)
microbiome10
bioinformatics9
edit-distance7
levenshtein6
bam5
levenshtein-distance5
sequence-alignment5
sequence5
fasta5
sequence-analysis5
blast5
python-bindings5
python4
tracks3
matlab2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
abiswas-odu/Disco
Jun 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:8 releases, 354 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 9 months
donia-lab/MetaBGC
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
A metagenomic strategy for harnessing the chemical repertoire of the human microbiome
Contributions:9 releases, 127 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 5 months
repertoirechemicalhuman-microbiomestrategybioinformatics
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