Armand Bankhead
Senior Staff Scientist at Fred Hutch
Arlington, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolArmand Bankhead is a Senior Staff Scientist with eight years of focused experience translating large genomic, clinical, and phenotypic datasets into actionable insights for cancer research, drug discovery, and virology. He combines a PhD-level background in bioinformatics with hands-on expertise in machine learning, RNA/DNA sequencing pipelines, multi-omic integration, and cloud-enabled high-performance computing. Armand has led industry-academic collaborations and built analysis frameworks for biomarker discovery, ctDNA, and target prioritization at organizations from Fred Hutch to Alpine Immune Sciences and Merck. He is fluent in R, Python, C/C++, SQL and cluster/AWS environments, and has a track record of algorithm and pipeline development that supports dozens of publications. Notably, his work spans both methodological innovation—simulation frameworks, variant-calling and fusion detection—and practical deployment of reproducible pipelines for interdisciplinary teams. Based in Arlington, WA, he blends rigorous statistical thinking with domain intuition to turn complex biological data into clinically relevant stories.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at University of Idaho
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Github Skills (22)
fasta8
genomics8
pypi8
fastq8
bioinformatics8
aggregate7
bioconda7
azure6
cran6
cifs6
emacs6
python6
ubuntu6
computational-biology5
data-visualization5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dcmb-courses/bioinf602-603-fall2020
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Fall 2020 BIOINF List of Approved Papers
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 28 days
bioinffall
bankhead3/rnaseq-pipelines-v2
Feb 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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