Emma Pierce-hoffman
Senior Computational Associate
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmma Pierce-hoffman is a senior computational biologist with 10 years of experience designing and implementing methods for large-scale whole genome sequencing, currently focused on structural variant discovery at the Broad Data Sciences Platform and the Talkowski Lab. She contributes to flagship population-scale projects such as gnomAD and All of Us, translating complex genomics problems into robust computational pipelines. With a BS from Yale and a background that spans research internships, cloud full-stack development, and hands-on lab process work, she bridges biology and software engineering effectively. Known for working on some of the largest human genetics datasets, she combines rigor in method development with practical production deployment in collaborative research environments.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at Yale University
French, Spanish, American Sign Language, English
Github Skills (16)
bioinformatics10
immunology10
spark-ml10
genome10
genomics10
wdl10
gatk10
spark10
snakemake10
sequence10
science10
structural-variation10
pipeline10
sequencing10
apache-spark9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
epiercehoffman/fiss
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
FireCloud Service Selector (FISS) -- Python bindings and CLI for FireCloud execution engine
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
pythonfirecloudpython-bindingsexecution-enginefiss
epiercehoffman/gatk-sv-terra-eph
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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