James Yurkovich
Research Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Dallas
Plano, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJames Yurkovich is a Research Assistant Professor and systems biology practitioner with 12 years of experience translating engineering and software methods into actionable biology and healthcare insights. He builds integrative, predictive models by combining digital sensor streams, sequencing, and other phenotypic assays to advance a “Phenomic Age” of medicine, and has led systems-biology efforts in industry and academia from Biosplice to the Buck Institute. As an educator and adjunct faculty in bioengineering and systems engineering, he trains students across K–graduate programs and advises on industrial bioengineering initiatives. He also consults on AI-driven systems biology and has served as CTO and senior data scientist, blending product-minded leadership with hands-on model development. Based in Plano, Texas, he uniquely speaks both computational engineering and wet-lab biology fluently, enabling cross-disciplinary teams to move from complex data to predictive interventions.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoSt. Charles Preparatory SchoolBachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering at University of Notre Dame
Github Skills (29)
blast9
metabolic-models9
bioinformatics9
constraint9
transcriptomics9
computational-biology9
fasta9
systems-biology9
prediction9
modeling8
cobra8
sbml8
transcription8
optimisation8
toolbox8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SBRG/uFBA
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
jtyurkovich/mood-modeling
Nov 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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