Hannah Blau
Data Engineer II
Bloomfield, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHannah Blau is a Data Engineer II with a decade of experience applying computational rigor to biomedical and research data, currently accelerating drug development at the Critical Path Institute. She blends software engineering and domain expertise from a Ph.D.-level computer science background to build reproducible pipelines and back ends that enable large-scale phenotyping and ontology curation. At The Jackson Laboratory she transformed millions of PubMed records for word-embedding research, clustered electronic health records to reveal long COVID subtypes, and supported cross-disciplinary teams on grant and publication efforts. Comfortable moving between research and production, she has hands-on experience with genotype–phenotype analyses, Mars rover instrument data workflows, and mentoring project teams. Colleagues rely on her for precision, clear communication, and the ability to translate complex scientific questions into practical, auditable data solutions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstB.A. French, B.A. French at Yale UniversityM.S.E. Computer and Information Science, M.S.E. Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (30)
pubmed10
relevance9
ontologies9
filter9
genomics8
monarchinitiative8
letter8
bioinformatics7
semantics7
owl7
java6
semantic-web5
javascript5
ontology4
medicine3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TheJacksonLaboratory/marea
Mar 2020 - Feb 2023
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Contributions:3 releases, 171 commits, 25 PRs in 3 years
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