Karin Isaev
Data Scientist
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarin Isaev is a Data Scientist with nine years of experience at the intersection of machine learning and molecular biology, currently applying foundation models for biological problems at Pioneer Labs. She completed a PhD in Computational Biology at Columbia, where her research developed novel algorithms to study RNA alternative splicing across cell types. Her prior roles span industry and academia—Regeneron, University Health Network, and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research—focusing on cancer genomics, lncRNA, and molecular profiling. Karin blends deep statistical and computational skills with hands-on experimental collaborations, and she’s known for translating probabilistic models into biologically interpretable insights. Based in New York, she maintains an online portfolio (karini925.github.io) that showcases her research and tooling for reproducible computational biology.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology at Columbia University in the City of New YorkMaster of Science - MS, Medical Biophysics, Master of Science - MS, Medical Biophysics at University of Toronto
English, Russian, French
Github Skills (20)
genome2
bioinformatics2
genomics2
evolution2
sequencing2
infectious-diseases2
seq1
genetic1
scaling1
fractions1
visualization1
evolutionary1
composition1
variants1
cancer-genomics1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
karini925/karini925.github.io
Jan 2020 - Feb 2025
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Contributions:101 pushes in 5 years 1 month
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reimandlab/lncRNAs_TCGA
Jun 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:305 commits, 8 pushes in 4 years 3 months
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