Karla Lindquist
Founder CEO at University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKarla Lindquist is a founder and CEO and senior academic statistician with over two decades of experience applying bioinformatics, biostatistics, epidemiology, and genetics to biomedical research and higher education. She holds a PhD in Biological and Medical Informatics from UCSF and has led data science efforts there as Head of Data Science while serving in faculty and research roles. Karla bridges rigorous academic methodology with practical analytics, consulting across industry and academia and contributing to large-scale projects dating back to the Human Genome Project. Based in San Francisco, she combines hands-on statistical expertise with product-minded leadership, now scaling impact through her company Bootstrap Analytics. A less obvious strength is her sustained ability to move between deep technical work (statistical modeling and genomics) and organizational leadership over long, overlapping careers.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Biostatistics, Master's degree Biostatistics at UCLA Fielding School of Public HealthDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biological and Medical Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biological and Medical Informatics at University of California, San Francisco
English
Github Skills (19)
rna-seq8
bioconductor8
seq8
ecology7
genomics6
bioinformatics6
r5
data-wrangling4
stable4
data-visualization3
visualization3
data-visualisation3
seurat2
bam2
data-science2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
UCSF-DSOS/bulk_RNA_seq
Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
RNA seq analysis using Bioconductor (analysis built on limma, edgeR)
Contributions:32 commits, 31 pushes in 1 year 3 months
rna-seq-analysisbioconductorgenomicsedgerbioinformatics
kjlquist/2019-03-08-UCSF-R
Jan 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:11 pushes, 5 branches, 3 tags in 2 years 3 months
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