Elena Rivas
Senior Fellow at Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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SeniorElena Rivas is a computational biologist and senior fellow at Harvard’s Molecular and Cellular Biology department with 20 years of experience in statistics, programming, and algorithm development. She specializes in RNA biology and evolutionary modeling, blending rigorous computational methods with biological insight to tackle complex sequence and phylogenetic problems. Based in Cambridge, MA, she brings deep quantitative skill to interdisciplinary projects, often turning theoretical models into practical analysis pipelines. Colleagues know her for bridging research-grade method development with reproducible software practices, and for a knack for spotting subtle evolutionary signals that others miss. Her career reflects sustained academic leadership coupled with hands-on algorithmic work that advances both methods and experimental interpretation.
20 years of coding experience
Github Skills (17)
sequence-analysis10
rna-seq10
sequence10
bioinformatics9
genomics9
automatic-differentiation6
gpu6
machine-learning6
python6
pytorch6
jit5
autodiff5
numpy4
tpu4
composable4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
EddyRivasLab/R-scape
Oct 2016 - May 2022
RNA Structural Covariation Above Phylogenetic Expectation
Contributions:141 commits, 2 PRs, 58 pushes in 5 years 7 months
bioinformaticsstructuralexpectationrna-seqrna
EddyRivasLab/tornado
Jan 2020 - Apr 2023
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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