Summary
Ghalia Rehawi is a PhD candidate at the Helmholtz Center of Computational Health with 11 years of software and research experience applying AI to biological and health questions. She blends a strong computer science foundation from TU Ilmenau and TUM with hands-on expertise in protein subcellular localization, structure prediction, large language models for protein sequences, and multi-omic network modeling using graph neural networks and diffusion-based graph generation. Her work spans high-performance computing and production-ready bioinformatics pipelines, reflecting both academic rigor and practical engineering. Notably, she has transitioned from software and web development roles into interdisciplinary computational biology, bringing a rare combination of NLP/ML engineering and domain-specific bioinformatics to advance healthcare applications.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Technical University Munich
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at TU Ilmenau
English, Arabic, German