Cathy Su
Bioinformatics Scientist
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolCathy Su is a bioinformatics scientist with 10 years of quantitative research experience, blending a PhD in Computational Biology and an MS in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon with industry roles at Novasenta and now Avista Therapeutics. She specializes in applying computational methods to biology-driven problems, moving models from hypothesis to actionable insight in translational settings. Her background spans wet-lab genomics work and software-first motif discovery, giving her uncommon fluency across experimental design, sequence analysis, and ML approaches. As an early leader (iGEM president) she has a track record of building interdisciplinary teams and securing funding to translate student projects into research opportunities. Based in Pittsburgh, she brings both academic rigor and startup-style execution to bioinformatics challenges.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Scholar OSSD, Ontario Scholar OSSD at Ursula Franklin AcademyedXBachelor of Science (B.S.) Biological Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Biological Physics at University of TorontoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Biology at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (74)
quickbooks10
single-cell-genomics10
jupyterlab10
cran10
spanish9
jupyter-widget9
genomics9
bioinformatics9
jupyter9
jupyterlab-extension9
on-disk8
gene-expression8
seq7
bioconductor7
python7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ceesu/ceesu.github.io
Jul 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
ceesu/datacarpentry.github.io
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
The Data Carpentry website repository
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
data-carpentrycarpentry
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