Caleb Kibet
Bioinformatician
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolCaleb Kibet is a bioinformatician with 13 years of experience applying genomics and machine learning to understand transcription factor biology and its links to disease. He currently works at IAVI, co-founded Jenomu Bioinformatics, and leads OpenScienceKE to promote reproducible workflows and FAIR data in African genomics. His background spans academic research (PhD work on TF binding and chronic myeloid leukemia), HPC pipeline development, and capacity-building through university lecturing and regional training networks. Caleb has practical regulatory and biosafety experience from early work with Kenya’s National Biosafety Authority, informing his advocacy for responsible, environmentally conscious research. He mentors high-school and graduate students regularly, bridging training, policy, and technical implementation to grow local bioinformatics capacity. Known for pragmatic open-science leadership, he combines hands-on pipeline engineering with community-driven training and policy initiatives.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Biotechnology, Second class Honours (Upper division), Bsc, Biotechnology, Second class Honours (Upper division) at Kenyatta UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics at Rhodes University
Kiswahili, English
Github Skills (72)
minecraft10
open-access10
open-science10
text-mining10
bioinformatics10
apc9
snakemake9
python9
publish9
genomics9
data-mining9
text-classification9
cluster-computing8
commons8
package-management8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
BioinfoNet/Data-mining
Aug 2018 - Apr 2021
Data mining to discover trends in Open Science in Kenya
Contributions:31 commits, 13 PRs, 25 pushes in 2 years 8 months
data-miningtext-miningtext-classificationopen-sciencediscover-trends
mbbu/Reproducible_Genomics_Project
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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