Houriiyah Tegally
Associate Professor
South Africa
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Top SchoolHouriiyah Tegally is an associate professor and head of data science at the Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI) in South Africa, combining seven years of hands-on bioinformatics and genomic epidemiology experience with leadership in capacity building across Africa. She led SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance initiatives that closed critical gaps in public health sequencing through partnerships with government agencies, translating complex analyses into actionable policy and operational workflows. Trained at Yale, Imperial College London and the University of KwaZulu‑Natal (PhD), she brings a multidisciplinary background spanning molecular biology, cognitive science and applied biosciences to data-driven outbreak response. Comfortable moving between code, lab protocols and stakeholder engagement, she has a track record of building teams and tools that make genomic insights usable at scale. An international researcher who has worked from Japan to Mauritius, she often applies machine‑learning and pattern‑matching approaches rooted in earlier algorithmic work to real‑world virology problems.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Applied Biosciences & Biotechnology, Master's degree Applied Biosciences & Biotechnology at Imperial College LondonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Genome Sciences/Genomics Bioinformatics (Virology), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Genome Sciences/Genomics Bioinformatics (Virology) at University of KwaZulu-NatalBachelor Of Science Mollecular Cellular Developmental Biology & Cognitive Science, Bachelor Of Science Mollecular Cellular Developmental Biology & Cognitive Science at Yale University
English, French, Swahili, creoles and pidgins, french-based, Urdu
Github Skills (3)
genome6
bioinformatics5
genomics5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
CERI-KRISP/CLIMADE
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:23 commits, 13 pushes in 1 month
CERI-KRISP/CHIKV_Genomic_Senegal_2023
Jan 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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