Athena Chen
Senior Data Scientist & Statistician I
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAthena Chen is a Senior Data Scientist and Statistician with 11 years of analytic experience and a recent PhD in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She develops Bayesian and high-throughput statistical methods for immunology and genomics, notably characterizing antibody responses using PhIP-Seq during her dissertation. At Gate Bioscience she has rapidly progressed through data scientist roles into a senior position, applying statistical genomics to translational problems. Athena also has substantial teaching experience in advanced data science and biostatistics, bringing clear data-analysis pedagogy to collaborative projects. She blends rigorous methodological development with practical classifier and enrichment tools for real-world biological datasets. Based in Baltimore, she combines deep quantitative training with hands-on domain work at the intersection of immunology and statistical computation.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
bioconductor7
bioinformatics5
data-files3
science2
machine-learning2
benchmark2
simulations2
python2
statistics2
data-science1
data-analysis1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
athchen/athchen.github.io
Aug 2021 - Mar 2025
Athena Chen's Personal Webpage
Contributions:86 PRs, 95 pushes, 41 branches in 3 years 6 months
reactpersonal-webpageathenachenwebpage
athchen/beer
Feb 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:65 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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