Angela Pisco
Director Data Science
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAngela Pisco is a Director of Data Science with nine years of experience at the intersection of computational biology and data engineering, currently leading data science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative after directing computational biology at insitro. She combines a PhD in Systems Biology with hands-on leadership of data science platforms and open-science efforts like Open Problems in Single-Cell Analysis, driving reproducible, large-scale single-cell and translational projects. Known for a perfectionist, creative approach, she has deep experience building teams and platforms that translate complex biological data into actionable insights. Based in San Francisco, she bridges academia and industry with a track record spanning biohub leadership, interdisciplinary postdoctoral research, and platform-scale contributions to the Tabula datasets ecosystem.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Systems Biology Oncology and Cancer Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Systems Biology Oncology and Cancer Biology at The University of ManchesterUniversity of CalgaryTechnical University of DenmarkMSc Biomedical Engineering, MSc Biomedical Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (136)
variants10
python10
cancer-genomics10
annotations10
genstage10
structural-variation10
datasets10
transcriptomics10
genomics10
single-cell-analysis10
infectious-diseases10
tabula10
scanpy10
scales10
single-cell-genomics10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
czbiohub-sf/tabula-sapiens
Aug 2019 - Feb 2022
Single Cell Transcriptomics of 25 Human Organs to Create a Tabula Sapiens
Contributions:1 release, 125 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 6 months
bioinformaticssingle-cell-rna-seqsapienstabulasingle-cell
aopisco/open-data-registry
Aug 2019 - Dec 2024
A registry of publicly available datasets on AWS
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
datasetsaws
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