Jimmy Lee
Senior Data Scientist
South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJimmy Lee is a Senior Data Scientist with 7 years of experience applying machine learning to genomics, cellular neuroscience, and molecular biology, currently leading computational efforts at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, he builds scalable ML tools for the Human Cell Atlas and bridges research-grade methods with production-ready pipelines. Comfortable across Python, R, Julia, SQL and C++, he progressed from establishing AAV gene-delivery models and discovering a novel hormone during his PhD to developing analysis platforms for large-scale single-cell datasets. Based in South Cambridgeshire, he combines deep wet-lab intuition with algorithmic rigor, enabling interpretable, high-throughput genomics analyses that inform both basic biology and translational research.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biotechnology, Honor, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biotechnology, Honor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
sequencing9
rna-seq9
r8
bookdown7
in-progress7
spatial4
biotechnology4
python4
factor-analysis1
r-package1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
thjimmylee/thjimmylee.github.io
Apr 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:13 PRs, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
thjimmylee/UKCIC-COVID19-paper-figures
Dec 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:3 releases, 5 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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