Brandon Lê
Postdoctoral Fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Lê is a genetic epidemiologist and postdoctoral fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University with 11 years of experience dissecting the genetic and omic underpinnings of complex and rare disorders, including bipolar disorder, sickle cell disease, essential tremor, glaucoma, and epigenetic aging. Trained in statistical genetics and computational biology (PhD, Duke; BS Computer Science, Brown), he combines large-scale data analysis with hands-on pipeline development to translate molecular signals into clinically relevant insights. His work spans genetic, epigenetic, and mitochondrial datasets, and he has contributed to platform-driven research as an NHLBI BioData Catalyst fellow, advising on usability for cloud-based biomedical science. Comfortable communicating science to broad audiences, he regularly bridges lab findings and public-facing explanations to increase accessibility of genomics. Colleagues describe him as equally at home writing reproducible code as synthesizing literature, driven by curiosity about rare disease mechanisms and pragmatic ways to accelerate discovery.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Genetics and Genomics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Genetics and Genomics at Duke UniversityBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Brown UniversityHigh School, High School at Conestoga Valley High School
Github Skills (14)
ecology9
stable7
r7
wolfram-language7
data-wrangling6
sympy5
visualization5
data-visualization5
data-visualisation4
data-science4
data-analysis4
python4
scientific-computing3
reproducible-science3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bsiranosian/pallid_pallas
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes in 2 months
bmle/G4Pipeline
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:1 release, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
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