Ben Busby
Senior Alliances Manager, Genomics at Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Busby is a senior alliances manager and genomics-focused technologist with 11 years of experience accelerating bioinformatics and precision medicine through rapid software prototyping and developer partnerships. He blends hands-on computational biology expertise—from a PhD in biochemistry and postdoctoral work—to industry roles at DNAnexus and NVIDIA, while advising projects like OpenCRAVAT and running the DCGenomics community. As an adjunct faculty member at Carnegie Mellon he designs innovative postgraduate courses and online teaching approaches that make complex genomics concepts accessible. Ben is also active in outreach and community building, having led genomics education initiatives at NCBI and founded local meetups, highlighting a rare mix of technical, educational, and ecosystem-building strengths.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Biochemistry, PhD Biochemistry at University of Maryland BaltimoreUMBC
English, Sign languages
Github Skills (200)
virus10
seq10
gene-expression10
dimensionality-reduction10
rna-seq10
tsne10
architecture9
ncbi9
single-cell-analysis9
transcriptomics9
clustering9
genomics9
bioinformatics9
discovery9
open-access8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
NCBI-Hackathons/GoodDoc
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
NCBI-Hackathons/Resources_for_Designing_Hackathons
Nov 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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