Alaa Abdellatif
Sr Biological Data Scientist
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlaa Abdellatif is a Sr Biological Data Scientist in San Francisco with a decade of experience at the intersection of computational biology and software engineering. He builds research-grade software and analysis pipelines for high-dimensional immunology and virology data, with recent work on transcriptomics, T cell receptor repertoire analysis, and LLM-driven socio-behavioral audio studies. Trained in biochemical engineering (UCL) and advanced computing and data science (Cambridge, University of San Francisco), he combines wet-lab domain knowledge with robust programming practices to translate complex biology into reproducible code. Notably, he applies novel methods—such as pitch estimation with SPICE and LLMs—to characterize youth-friendly health services, reflecting a taste for interdisciplinary, unconventional solutions. He is pragmatic and collaborative, thriving in translational research teams that require both statistical rigor and production-ready tooling.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Philosophy - MPhil Computing, Master of Philosophy - MPhil Computing at University of CambridgeMaster of Science - MS Data, Master of Science - MS Data at University of San FranciscoUniversity College London
English, Arabic
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
bioinformatics10
genomics10
rna-seq9
sequencing8
aggregate7
location7
recursion6
python6
polynomials6
linux5
conda5
package-management4
genome4
ecosystem3
data-api3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
WAMRI-AI/salk-2020
Oct 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:104 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 7 months
AlaaALatif/tahwir
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
toolkit for accelerated biological sequence analysis
Contributions:42 PRs, 95 pushes, 8 branches in 4 months
sequenceacceleratedgenomicsbioinformaticssequence-alignment
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