Karen Eilbeck
Professor at University of Utah, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolKaren Eilbeck is a Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah with over a decade of experience bridging higher education and industry in genomics, sequence analysis, and biomedical ontologies. She has progressed through research and faculty ranks to serve as interim chair, demonstrating leadership in building interdisciplinary research and education programs. Her work combines deep domain expertise in life sciences with practical informatics skills that enable translation of genomic data into computable knowledge. Karen’s background includes industry research at Celera Genomics and technical roles at UC Berkeley, giving her a rare perspective on both large-scale genomics projects and academic scholarship. Based in Salt Lake City, she maintains an active research program focused on ontology-driven data integration and teaching the next generation of bioinformaticians. Colleagues note her ability to connect conceptual ontology design with hands-on sequence analysis to solve complex biomedical questions.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, PhD at The University of ManchesterBSc., BSc. at The University of SalfordThe University of Toledo
Github Skills (26)
gff10
ontologies9
geneontology9
owl9
workitem9
monarchinitiative8
specification8
semantic-web8
ontology8
linked-data8
json-ld7
bioinformatics6
open-science4
foundry4
metadata4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
The-Sequence-Ontology/SO-Ontologies
Mar 2016 - Jul 2016
Collect of SO Ontologies
Contributions:3 commits, 5 pushes, 105 comments in 4 months
monarchinitiativecollectowlgeneontologyobofoundry
The-Sequence-Ontology/Specifications
May 2016 - Apr 2024
GFF and GVF specification documents
Contributions:6 comments in 8 years 1 month
json-ldjsonldlinked-dataworkitemowl
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