Kate Wathen-dunn
Specialist Data Scientist
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolKate Wathen-dunn is a specialist data scientist with nine years’ experience applying data science and bioinformatics across agriculture, mining, and industry, currently delivering advanced analytics at BHP in Brisbane. Her background spans bioinformatics research—where she led transcriptome and biomarker discovery for sugarcane disease—to geoscience applications that translate data governance and mining-focused models into operational insights for resource exploration. She combines technical leadership, project management and stakeholder engagement from roles at the Geological Survey of Queensland with hands-on machine learning and data-mining skills. Notably, she bridges domain science and applied analytics, turning complex biological and geoscience datasets into actionable decisions for industry.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Bioinformatics, Master of Bioinformatics at The University of QueenslandBachelor of Science, Biotechnology, Bachelor of Science, Biotechnology at Murdoch University
Github Skills (48)
skos9
nmf9
semantic-web9
rdf9
biodiversity8
data-management8
taxonomy8
portal7
biology7
bioinformatics7
pandas-dataframe7
statistics7
kraken7
sequence7
turtle-rdf7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
k8hertweck/ycs
Jul 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:4 pushes in 3 years 11 months
katewd/SugarcaneYCS
Jan 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 3 years 4 months
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