Jaime Ortiz
Doctoral Candidate
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJaime Ortiz is a conservation genomicist and doctoral candidate at Cornell with a decade of experience translating genomic and bioinformatic methods into actionable conservation strategies, most notably leading the Galapagos Sea Cucumber Project. He combines hands-on fieldwork across marine environments with advanced genome assembly and population-genomic analyses to inform restocking, genetic rescue, and anti-illegal fishing interventions. Jaime has partnered with stakeholders from local fishers to government agencies and has held research fellowships with National Geographic and WWF, reflecting a rare mix of policy, outreach, and technical leadership. His short industry stint at Illumina improving RNA analysis pipelines underscores his ability to bridge academic research and scalable computational workflows. Passionate about storytelling through DNA, he seeks to inspire the next generation to unite cutting-edge genomics with on-the-ground conservation to protect biodiversity and benefit human health.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Conservation Genomics / Computational Biology, Department of Natural Resources, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Conservation Genomics / Computational Biology, Department of Natural Resources at Cornell UniversityMaster of Science (MSc), Environmental Management, Monitoring and Modelling, Geography Department, Master of Science (MSc), Environmental Management, Monitoring and Modelling, Geography Department at King's College London
Github Skills (21)
dna-sequences9
genome8
taxonomy7
bioinformatics7
fasta7
metagenomics6
microbiome6
fastq6
classification6
memory-efficient4
python4
machine-learning1
lda1
latent-dirichlet-allocation1
visualization1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jaimeortiz-david/Capstone_2
Feb 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 23 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
jaimeortiz-david/Capstone1
Dec 2019 - Oct 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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