Erin Gill
University Research Associate (Junior Faculty)
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolErin Gill is a bioinformatics-focused data scientist and university research associate with 11 years of experience applying machine learning, statistical genomics, and cloud-backed data engineering to infectious disease research. Based at Simon Fraser University and active in CoVaRR-Net’s CAMEO initiative, she has built ETL pipelines, deployed PostgreSQL on AWS RDS, and produced interactive web tools (Flask and Shiny) that translated SARS-CoV-2 sequencing and vaccine eligibility data into actionable insights for public health. Her work spans hands-on algorithm development—novel R statistical methods and Python ML packages for outlier detection and forecasting—to program management and cross-disciplinary coordination that guided national-level briefings. Unusually for an academic, she blends production-grade web/apps and database deployments with deep genomics expertise from a PhD in Genetics, enabling both rapid prototyping and policy-facing delivery.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Biochemistry and Biology (honors), BSc Biochemistry and Biology (honors) at Dalhousie UniversityPhD Genetics, PhD Genetics at The University of British Columbia
French, English
Github Skills (7)
simple-gui9
z-score6
portal4
linear-regression3
notebook1
python1
genomics1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
eringill/chronic_infection_python
Mar 2024 - Oct 2025
A simple GUI that allows users to check whether mutations from a SARS-CoV-2 genome best fit a mutational distribution of genomes derived from global, chronic, or deer infections.
Contributions:14 PRs, 120 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 7 months
simple-guimutation-analysissars-cov-2zoonoses
eringill/outlier_analysis
Jul 2020 - Sep 2022
Methods to automatically parse longitudinal numeric data for outliers using IQR and modified z-score, will also predict future time points using linear regression
Contributions:6 PRs, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
linear-regressionz-score
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