Hakan Ozadam
Senior Scientist II at Sail Biomedicines
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHakan Ozadam is a computational biologist and bioinformatician with a PhD in mathematics and over a decade applying math, statistics, and software engineering to genomics and RNA biology. He builds scalable NGS pipelines, custom algorithms, and production-ready tools that process massive datasets and underpin AI/ML model development for therapeutic discovery. His experience spans academic and industry roles—from postdoctoral and research scientist positions to senior scientist leadership at Sail Biomedicines—bridging interdisciplinary teams of ML scientists, immunologists, and molecular biologists. Notable research contributions include gene expression, RNA splicing, RNA–protein interactions, 3D genome folding, and translation, often translating complex analyses into actionable biological insights. He is based in Austin and combines rigorous mathematical training with hands-on workflow engineering to accelerate drug discovery. An underrated strength is his ability to turn exploratory genomics research into reproducible, scalable pipelines that become the foundation for downstream ML and experimental validation.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mathematics and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mathematics and Computer Science at Middle East Technical UniversityPostgraduate Degree, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Postgraduate Degree, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at UMass Chan Medical School
English
Github Skills (29)
translation9
file-format9
sparse9
pipeline9
bioinformatics9
genomics9
python-bindings9
genome8
profiling8
python-interface8
nim-lang8
r-package8
perl7
python7
data-profiling6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CenikLab/CenikLab.github.io
Jun 2018 - Jun 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 85 pushes, 1 comment in 5 years
ribosomeprofiling/ribor
Aug 2019 - Dec 2020
R interface for .ribo files
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 4 months
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