Evan Cofer
Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Hippo Harvest
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolEvan Cofer is a Senior Machine Learning Scientist in the Bay Area with a decade of experience applying deep learning and scalable algorithms to genomics and synthetic biology. He earned a PhD in Quantitative and Computational Biology from Princeton (advised by Olga Troyanskaya) and completed a postdoc in Debbie Marks' lab at Harvard Medical School, combining rigorous research with hands-on engineering. Evan has moved seamlessly between academia and industry, developing ML-driven bioinformatics at Asimov and now leading ML efforts at Hippo Harvest to translate genomic insights into deployable systems. His background spans large-scale cloud-based analyses of metagenomic datasets, mentorship of students, and production-focused model development. Notably, his undergraduate honors work processed trillions of sequencing reads with deep learning—an early signal of his ability to operationalize massive biological data. He is motivated by using technological innovation to advance scientific knowledge and build scalable solutions for real-world biology.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Keystone SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, CS GPA: 3.93, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, CS GPA: 3.93 at Trinity UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Quantitative and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Quantitative and Computational Biology at Princeton University
English
Github Skills (35)
biology10
python10
doi10
machine-learning10
medicine10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
computational-biology10
sequence10
data-science9
pytorch9
ml9
deep-neural-networks9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
evancofer/evancofer.github.io
Jul 2015 - Apr 2024
Contributions:63 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 10 months
FunctionLab/DeepArk
Sep 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:39 commits, 6 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 7 months
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