Arjun Biddanda
Postdoctoral Fellow at The Johns Hopkins University
Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolArjun Biddanda is a population and statistical geneticist with 11 years of experience bridging computational science and human genetics, currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. He combines a PhD in Human Genetics from the University of Chicago with a BS in Computer Science from Cornell to develop pipelines and tools that translate ancestral variation into disease-risk insights. His industry experience includes building ancestry and risk-analysis workflows at 54gene and research roles at the University of Oxford, reflecting fluency in both production-grade genomics engineering and academic inquiry. Known for pragmatic tool-building, he brings a rare mix of statistical rigor and software engineering discipline to large-scale genomic datasets.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Cornell UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Human Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Human Genetics at University of Chicago
Github Skills (62)
snakemake10
genetic10
burrows-wheeler-transform10
workflow-management10
bioinformatics9
transform9
statistics8
css7
gwas7
project-setup7
python7
genome7
compression7
genomics7
sequence6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
aabiddanda/dot-files
Feb 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:120 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 11 months
aabiddanda/qtl-power
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 30 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 2 months
gwaspowerqtl
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