Diana Cortés
Computational Biologist
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDiana Cortés is a computational biologist and software engineer with eight years of experience applying computer science to biomedical research, currently working at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute after completing PhD research on transcriptional regulation and long-range co-expression loss in cancer at INMEGEN. She builds reproducible analysis pipelines primarily in R and Snakemake, and brings additional software fluency in Python, JavaScript, Java, and C++ from industry and academic roles. Diana has a track record of shipping production software at companies like Thermo Fisher and leading engineering teams earlier in her career, while also teaching and mentoring through Women Who Code and Pilares School of Code for Women. Her blend of systems-biology network science and practical workflow automation uniquely positions her to translate complex genomics questions into scalable, reproducible computational solutions. She is based in Boston and actively expands her machine learning and applied data science skills through targeted courses, reflecting a continuous-learning mindset.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. in Computer Science and Technology, Graduated with Honors., B.S. in Computer Science and Technology, Graduated with Honors. at Tecnológico de MonterreyUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
English
Github Skills (5)
seq7
rna-seq6
bioinformatics5
genomics4
pipeline4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ddiannae/tcga-xena-pipeline
Feb 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:131 commits, 74 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 9 months
ddiannae/ddiannae.github.io
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:62 commits, 71 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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