Haley Hunter-zinck
Staff Data Scientist
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolHaley Hunter-zinck is a Staff Data Scientist in San Francisco with eight years of cross-disciplinary experience applying AI and machine learning to medical informatics, genomics, and large-scale survey processing. She has a PhD in Computational Biology and a track record of moving research into production—fine-tuning transformer models for the U.S. Census, generating and validating synthetic EHRs at Berkeley, and leading multi-institutional data harmonization efforts in cancer and COVID projects. Haley combines hands-on model development (NLP, generative AI, multi-label and convolutional approaches) with engineering skills like web crawling and pipeline construction, and she’s led teams and mentored staff across federal and academic settings. Notably, she pairs deep domain expertise in clinical data privacy and validation with pragmatic delivery—building user-friendly Python tools and visualization apps that operationalize complex analyses.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Biology at Cornell University
English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
genie10
scoped9
python8
validation8
command-line-tool6
etl6
pipeline5
cli5
bioinformatics5
quality-assurance5
monitoring5
redcap2
transformation1
automation1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Innovate-For-Health/absehrd
Jul 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:125 commits, 6 PRs, 22 pushes in 11 months
hhunterzinck/genie-bpc-quac
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
GENIE Biopharma Collaborative Quality Assurance Checklist
Contributions:62 PRs, 73 pushes, 64 branches in 2 months
checklistbioinformaticscollaborativequalityassurance
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