Alejandro Ochoa
Assistant Professor at Duke University
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolAlejandro Ochoa is an Assistant Professor and statistical geneticist with 11 years of research experience bridging mathematics, computation, and biology. Based at Duke University after a postdoc at Princeton, he develops statistical methods for population genetics and models time-series from drug trials, with past work spanning protein domain prediction, functional annotation of malaria parasites, and computational protein design. He focuses on research that advances human health and sheds light on human evolution, combining rigorous theory with practical applications. A well-rounded nerd who also enjoys languages and music, he brings interdisciplinary training from MIT (Biology & Mathematics) and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Princeton to tackle complex biomedical data problems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Biology and Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Biology and Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Molecular Biology at Princeton University
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (16)
statistical-genetics10
factor-analysis9
factor9
genetics9
plink8
bed8
beta-testing7
beancount6
fst5
factorization4
python4
svd4
matrix4
statistics3
testing3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
OchoaLab/simtrait
Feb 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 66 commits, 58 pushes in 3 years 10 months
OchoaLab/kinshipsymbols
Feb 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
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