James Hawley
Senior Data Scientist
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJames Hawley is a Senior Data Scientist and computational biologist with 11 years of experience applying mathematics, statistics, and software to cancer genomics and epigenetics. He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto (Lupien Lab) and a Bachelor of Mathematics in Mathematical Physics from the University of Waterloo, and has progressed through data science and computational biology roles at Roche since 2021. James blends rigorous quantitative modelling and software engineering—from DNA-protein binding tools and NGS post-processing frameworks to secure distributed systems—to translate complex biological data into actionable insights. He has led large student research teams (iGEM) and cross-disciplinary projects, demonstrating both technical depth and mentorship. Based in Toronto, he is comfortable bridging academia and industry to deliver reproducible, statistically sound solutions for precision oncology.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biomathematics Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biomathematics Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at University of TorontoBachelor of Mathematics Mathematical Physics Pure Mathematics Minor, Bachelor of Mathematics Mathematical Physics Pure Mathematics Minor at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (77)
linux10
text-editor10
nixos9
kakoune9
rust9
nix9
tray9
vim9
genomics9
plugin9
environment-variables9
cli8
command-line-tool8
hts8
unlock8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jrhawley/usra-iqc
Jun 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
jrhawley/bio-jtools-rs
Jan 2020 - Oct 2022
A suite of bioinformatics tools for interacting with high throughput sequencing (HTS) data, written entirely in Rust
Contributions:1 release, 260 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 9 months
rustbiocondahigh-throughput-sequencingsequencinggenomics
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