Forrest Chen
Data Engineer, Analytics Meta
Fremont, California, United States
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Top SchoolForrest Chen is a data engineer and genomics-informed data scientist with nine years of experience bridging medical research, product management, and analytics. He holds a PhD in Human/Medical and Molecular Genetics and has translated that domain expertise into roles at Penn State, Sema4, BD, and now Meta, focusing on statistical genetics, high-throughput sequencing datasets, and NLP-driven data mining. Forrest combines hands-on bioinformatics and statistical-methods development with practical go-to-market and customer-facing experience from his time launching genomics products. He is passionate about turning genomic big data into actionable insights for personalized medicine and has a proven track record integrating lab-scale research pipelines with scalable analytics. Based in Fremont, CA, he also completed a Udacity Nanodegree in Data Structures and Algorithms, underscoring his commitment to engineering rigor alongside domain science.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Bachelor's degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General at Sichuan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Human/Medical and Molecular Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Human/Medical and Molecular Genetics at Fudan UniversityCertificate of Completion, Data Structures and Algorithms, Udacity Nanodegree program, Certificate of Completion, Data Structures and Algorithms, Udacity Nanodegree program at Udacitychongqing no.1 middle school
Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (14)
google10
python9
automation9
certificate9
api6
machine-learning4
kaggle4
r-package2
genetic2
fine-mapping2
visualization1
bioinformatics1
causal1
datasets1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
funfunchen/dojo_rules
Aug 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 15 pushes in 5 years 3 months
dajiangliu/rareGWAMA
Jan 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:92 commits, 80 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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