Ali Imami
Graduate Research Assistant
Toledo, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolAli Imami is a computational biologist and PhD candidate with 14 years of cross-disciplinary experience applying cloud-native infrastructure and reproducible workflows to kinase signaling, multi-omics integration, and drug repurposing. As principal developer of widely used tools like drugfindR, KINNET, and aaprop, he translates complex transcriptomic and kinomic data into actionable hypotheses and has co-authored 25+ peer-reviewed papers presented at major conferences. He has designed AWS-powered, CI/CD-enabled platforms that supported 50+ researchers and led a schizophrenia research team that produced eight published manuscripts under his supervision. A former clinician with an MBBS and hands-on hospital operations experience, he uniquely bridges clinical insight with computational rigor. A Fulbright Scholar and mentor, he champions open science and reproducible research practices while seeking industry bioinformatics scientist or academic faculty roles. He is open to international opportunities and experienced in running production-grade, multi-user research environments.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Psychiatry, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Psychiatry at Nishtar Medical CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at The University of Toledo
German, English, Urdu, Punjabi, Esperanto, lojban, siraiki
Stackoverflow
21reputation
505reached
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Github Skills (200)
transcriptomics10
thin10
spice10
changelog10
zsh10
php10
python10
bash10
char10
oh-my-zsh10
r-package10
package10
release-automation10
semantic-release10
publish10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
AliSajid/Covid19
Apr 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:9 releases, 158 commits, 12 PRs in 9 months
AliSajid/random-wait-action
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
An elementary action to inject a random wait before the next step
Contributions:15 reviews, 466 PRs, 632 pushes in 2 years 5 months
delaywait
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