Alex Feltus
Associate Department Chair
Clemson, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Feltus is a professor and associate department chair at Clemson University, co-founder and Chief Discovery Officer of Praxis AI, and a serial entrepreneur who builds petascale cyberinfrastructure for biology. With a PhD from Vanderbilt and postdoctoral training at Emory, he has published 144 papers and released open-source bioinformatics tools spanning tumor genomics, crop genetics, genome assembly, and paleogenomics. He combines hands-on expertise in AI, high-performance and cloud computing, and systems genetics with a long track record of NSF-funded research and tech translation via Allele Systems. A former Peace Corps science teacher, he brings an uncommon mix of global service, pedagogy, and large-scale research training—having mentored thousands of students across HS to PhD levels. His current mission is to democratize data-intensive computing and build interdisciplinary communities that turn biological data into real-world jobs and discoveries.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Cell Biology, Ph.D. Cell Biology at Vanderbilt UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS Biochemistry at Auburn University
Github Skills (30)
gene-expression9
socket9
bioinformatics6
big-data5
scoring4
pipeline4
fastq4
blockchain3
grid3
science3
open-science3
docker-image3
docker-compose2
centos2
docker2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
genomecuration/genomecuration.github.io
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:47 commits, 47 pushes in 1 day
feltus/cc_torque_gemmake
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:77 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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