Ally Hawkins
Senior Data Scientist
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolAlly Hawkins is a Senior Data Scientist with a PhD in Cancer Biology and an MS in Bioinformatics from the University of Michigan, blending six years of translational research and data science experience. She builds analytical tools and curricula to empower the pediatric cancer research community at Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation while translating single-cell and spatial genomics from her postdoc at Weill Cornell into actionable insights. Her work focuses on mapping cell-cell interactions and resistance mechanisms across diverse tumors, pairing deep wet-lab expertise with computational rigor. Based in Nashville, she excels at turning complex biological questions into reproducible analytic pipelines and training resources for researchers. An MIT-trained biologist, she brings a rare combination of hands-on experimental discovery and data-driven software development that accelerates therapeutic target identification.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Cancer Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Cancer Biology at University of Michigan - Rackham Graduate SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (21)
spatial-transcriptomics10
atlas10
nextflow10
portal10
python9
machine-learning8
bioinformatics8
genomics6
cran6
single-cell-genomics4
sequencing3
bioconductor3
transcript3
gene-expression3
rna-seq3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AlexsLemonade/scpca-docs
Aug 2021 - Mar 2025
User information about ScPCA processing
Contributions:8 releases, 156 reviews, 129 PRs in 3 years 8 months
user-information
AlexsLemonade/scpca-nf
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
scpca-nf is the Nextflow workflow for processing Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas Portal data
Contributions:32 releases, 422 reviews, 509 commits in 1 year 5 months
workflowspatial-transcriptomicspediatric-cancerdata-portalscrna-seq
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