Byron Smith
Bioinformatics Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolByron Smith is a Bioinformatics Engineer and computational microbiologist with 12 years of experience turning large, complex multi-omic datasets—especially human gut shotgun metagenomes—into reproducible, actionable insights. He develops open-source bioinformatic and statistical tools, applies machine learning to microbiome problems, and has authored eight peer-reviewed papers with over 1,400 citations supporting both clinical and basic research worldwide. As a Gladstone postdoc he led multidisciplinary collaborations, taught and mentored scientists in Python and computational skills, and chaired the Postdoc Advisory Committee to advance scientific community and inclusion. Now at Xaira Therapeutics, he brings a track record of shipping robust analysis pipelines and software that bridge research and translational goals. Colleagues value his ability to translate messy biological data into rigorously tested workflows and to coach others to do the same.
12 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of MichiganThomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyBS, Biology, BS, Biology at William & Mary
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Github Skills (127)
ecology10
probabilistic-programming10
snakemake10
python10
loops10
vim10
lua10
mcmc10
pymc10
nvim10
genomics10
bayesian-inference10
statistics10
api10
variational-inference10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bsmith89/blog-theme
Jul 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:28 pushes in 5 years 6 months
bsmith89/MIDAS
Jan 2020 - Oct 2024
Microbiome - Integrated Gut Genome
Contributions:47 pushes, 18 branches in 4 years 10 months
genomeintegratedgenomicsbioinformaticsmicrobiome
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