Ben Busby
Senior Alliances Manager, Genomics at The Johns Hopkins 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 (180)
virus10
spatial-transcriptomics10
gene-expression10
clustering10
ncbi10
rna-seq10
discovery10
architecture9
dimensionality-reduction9
genomics9
beta-release9
bioinformatics9
data-visualization8
python8
transcriptomics8
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
collaborativebioinformatics/Disease_Subtyping_2022
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:52 commits, 2 PRs, 48 pushes in 4 months
NCBI-Hackathons/ncbi-hackathons.github.io
Oct 2016 - Jul 2019
NCBI Hackathon Repos
Contributions:2 PRs, 68 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 10 months
ncbi
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