Joelle Mbatchou
Senior Manager, Statistical Genetics
Village of Tarrytown, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJoelle Mbatchou is a Senior Manager in Statistical Genetics with a PhD in Statistics from the University of Chicago and a decade of research experience translating complex genetic data into scalable methods and software. At Regeneron she led development and C++ implementation of REGENIE, a whole-genome regression tool that enabled orders-of-magnitude faster association analyses on UK Biobank-scale data and is publicly used by the community. She combines hands-on algorithm development, cloud-scale pipeline engineering for WES/WGS datasets, and team leadership—mentoring interns and guiding reproducible workflows. Based in Tarrytown, NY, she is also a dedicated educator and advocate, actively promoting STEM careers for women and girls while staying engaged with cutting-edge statistical genetics research.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Biology and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Biology and Mathematics at DePaul UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Statistics at University of Chicago
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
bioinformatics10
conda10
cpp10
package-management10
bioconda10
beta-testing8
plink6
testing4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
joellembatchou/bioconda-recipes
Mar 2022 - Nov 2025
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Contributions:19 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 8 months
biocondabioinformaticsrecipesconda
rgcgithub/regenie
May 2020 - Jan 2023
regenie is a C++ program for whole genome regression modelling of large genome-wide association studies.
Contributions:54 releases, 2 reviews, 879 commits in 2 years 8 months
cpp
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