Jason Dai
Bioinformatics Scientist III
Glendale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Dai is a Bioinformatics Scientist III with 8 years of experience blending software engineering, data science, and computational biology to deliver production-ready bioinformatics solutions. Based in Glendale, CA, he moved from undergraduate research at UC San Diego through Carnegie Mellon’s MS in Computational Biology to roles and internships at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where he now contributes to applied AI and advanced computing in life sciences. He is skilled at turning complex biological data into actionable tools and pipelines, bringing both research rigor and pragmatic engineering to cross-disciplinary teams. Jason’s background spans hands-on research, internship-driven product exposure, and current industry-level development, enabling rapid translation of algorithms into scalable workflows. He often bridges the gap between prototyping novel models and integrating them into regulated, high-throughput environments. Outside core responsibilities he focuses on leveraging AI to innovate across domains in bioinformatics, reflecting a persistent interest in impactful computational methods.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Hebron High SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Computational Biology, Master of Science - MS, Computational Biology at Carnegie Mellon UniversityJasper High School
Chinese, English
Github Skills (8)
genomics7
bioinformatics7
computational-biology7
delta6
structural-variation5
caller4
sequencing3
cancer-genomics3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bbl007/SDHacks2019
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:46 commits, 35 pushes in 1 day
Jasondai9/BioinformaticsTools
Apr 2019 - Jul 2021
Various scripts/programs used for working with bioinformatics data
Contributions:4 PRs, 95 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
deltabioinformatics-datagenomicsbioinformaticsprograms
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