Dean Lee
Senior Expert I, Data Science
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDean Lee is a Senior Expert in Data Science based in Cambridge, MA, with a decade of experience translating single-cell and spatial transcriptomics into actionable insights for oncology R&D. He builds scalable scRNA-seq workflows, derived pan-cancer cell-type signatures, and developed deep-learning and NMF approaches to automate cell annotation and reveal malignant cell states that inform drug positioning and resistance hypotheses. A former neuroscience grad student who pivoted to computational biology, he blends wet-lab intuition with production-grade data engineering and has led teams to produce large single-cell atlases across indications and species. He founded Dean's List (Figure One Lab) to upskill bench biologists in computational analysis by reenacting Figure 1 from modern papers, aiming to normalize biologist-analysts rather than siloed specialists. Dean frequently presents at industry forums and mentors others into biotech/pharma roles, and he pragmatically leverages curated communities to scale career support. Not obvious from his title: he pairs hands-on algorithm development with practical playbooks that let non-computational biologists analyze their own data.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Applied Statistics, Master's degree, Applied Statistics at Penn State UniversityMaster's degree, Neuroscience, Master's degree, Neuroscience at Harvard UniversityUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Chinese, English
Github Skills (52)
development-kit10
nearest-neighbors10
service-management10
bitcoin10
similarity10
java10
cryptocurrency10
discovery10
sdk10
rapid-development10
cosine-similarity10
dynamic-routing10
clustering10
rapid10
jetty10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bubiji/bubiji_player
Mar 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches, 3 issues in 5 years 10 months
bubiji/bubiji.github.io
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:16 PRs, 40 pushes, 17 branches in 2 years 5 months
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