Benjamin Smith
Statistical Genetics - Professional Aid
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Smith is a statistical genetics professional with 14 years of cross-disciplinary experience blending genetics, biostatistics, and bioinformatics to drive genome-wide association studies and novel trait-detection methods. Based in Ann Arbor, he holds an MS in Biostatistics and a B.S. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology from Michigan State University and has worked in research and applied roles at Michigan State and the University of Michigan. His background spans hands-on lab work, graduate research assistance, and bioinformatics, giving him a rare combination of wet-lab intuition and quantitative rigor. Outside academia he’s applied customer-facing problem solving in retail service roles, suggesting strong communication and stakeholder skills alongside technical depth.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
A.S General Studies; Math and Natural Science, A.S General Studies; Math and Natural Science at Washtenaw Community CollegeMaster of Science - MS Biostatistics, Master of Science - MS Biostatistics at Michigan State UniversityDexter High School
Github Skills (8)
rna-seq6
genomics4
bioinformatics4
microbiome4
sequencing4
python3
seq3
transcriptomics2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
benjsmith/mubiomics
Oct 2011 - Sep 2012
Contributions:53 commits in 11 months
pythonmicrobiome-analysissequencinggenomicsbioinformatics
benjsmith/resource-flow-streamlit
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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