Ivana Piližota
Bioinformatics Developer
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIvana Piližota is a Bioinformatics Developer with nine years of experience applying rigorous quantitative training (BSc Mathematics, MSc Mathematical Statistics, PhD in Bioinformatics) to accelerate genomics workflows in both academia and industry. Based at EMBL-EBI, she has a track record of engineering practical bioinformatics solutions—ranging from clustering algorithms that achieved 4x speedups in protein comparisons to pipelines that improved thousands of fragmented gene annotations. Comfortable across Python, R, Bash and HPC environments, she pairs technical depth with clear communication, having authored manuscripts, taught tutorials, and supervised interns. Her work spans international collaborations in Europe and Asia and includes hands-on contributions to crop-science projects, revealing a knack for translating statistical ideas into tools that scale to real-world biological datasets.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Science (MSc), Mathematical Statistics, magna cum laude, Master of Science (MSc), Mathematical Statistics, magna cum laude at University of ZagrebUniversity College London
English, Croatian
Github Skills (28)
mysql10
perl10
api10
sql10
bioinformatics10
comparative-genomics10
database10
plugin9
seq8
language-agnostic7
data-access7
rna-seq7
restful6
rest6
assembly5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ipilizota/esprit2
Jul 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 6 months
ipilizota/ensembl-compara
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
The Ensembl Compara Perl API and SQL schema
Contributions:17 pushes in 1 month
apisql-schemaensemblsqlperl
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