Andrew Chen
Graduate Student Researcher
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Chen is a bioinformatics-focused data scientist and PhD candidate at Boston University with eight years of experience bridging machine learning, multi-omics analysis, and biomedical applications. He develops scalable, interpretable methods for network analysis and has applied causal ML, reinforcement learning, and graph neural networks to problems from protein abundance prediction to antiviral drug discovery. His work spans academia, national labs, and startups—contributing to ICLR and Scientific Reports papers while consulting on diagnostic ML products. Comfortable with both classical computer vision and modern deep learning, he brings a track record of turning complex biological data into actionable models and interpretable insights.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Statistics, Honors, Bachelor's degree, Statistics, Honors at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School, High School at West Island SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at Boston University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (88)
proportions9
representations9
genomics9
single-cell-genomics9
bioinformatics9
medicine9
cran9
iterative9
chemistry8
computational-biology8
inverse8
polarization8
biology8
r-package8
datasets7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
andrewdchen/RNAHOTness
May 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
andrewdchen/HIP-A2CN
Jan 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:3 reviews, 3 PRs, 18 pushes in 3 months
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