Andrey Bzikadze
Applied Scientist at Amazon
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAndrey Bzikadze is an Applied Scientist at Amazon with 11 years of experience bridging computational research and production-scale machine learning. He holds a PhD in Bioinformatics from UC San Diego and was a member of the Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium that produced the first complete human genome assembly, with deep expertise in long-read genome assembly, centromere genomics, and immunogenomics. Before Amazon he developed statistical models for immune repertoire analysis and improved recommendation systems during internships at Yandex and Amazon, showing a mix of theoretical rigor and product-minded engineering. Trained in mathematical statistics with perfect GPAs and a background in data mining, he combines strong probabilistic modeling skills with applied genomics to translate complex biological data into scalable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Statistical modeling, Mathematical Statistics, GPA 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Statistical modeling, Mathematical Statistics, GPA 4.0 at Saint Petersburg State UniversityUniversity of California, San DiegoData Mining, GPA 4.0, Data Mining, GPA 4.0 at Computer Science Center
Russian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (42)
package-management10
decomposition10
conda10
genome-assembly10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
illumina10
error-correction10
bioconda10
algorithm9
algorithms8
python7
scientific-computing7
genome7
pip6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
seryrzu/unialigner
Feb 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 66 commits in 1 year 7 months
ablab/VerityMap
Oct 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 92 commits, 20 PRs in 10 months
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