Katrinaย Kalantar
Senior Staff, Computational Biologist, AI X Biology
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKatrina Kalantar is a Senior Staff Computational Biologist who builds and scales AI-driven tools at the nexus of genomics, machine learning, and product development, with a decade of experience across research and platform teams. She led zero-to-one strategy and implementation for CZ Benchmarks and major CZ ID metagenomics features, translating rigorous ML research into production-ready evaluation frameworks and pipelines used for infectious disease detection. With a PhD in computational biology focused on multimodal sequencing integration, she brings deep domain expertise in benchmarking, model evaluation, and cross-functional product leadership. Based in San Francisco, she combines hands-on algorithmic work with platform thinking to ensure models are reliable in real-world biological workflows. An understated strength is her knack for turning complex sequencing methods into reproducible software and community-facing tools that accelerate both science and product adoption.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at UC Berkeley - UCSF Program in BioengineeringUniversity of California, San Diego
Github Skills (32)
variants9
next-generation-sequencing9
sequencing9
bioinformatics9
infectious-diseases9
immunology9
genomics9
computational-biology9
pipeline8
biology8
portable8
snakemake8
structural-variation7
science7
wdl7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chanzuckerberg/czid-notebooks
Sep 2019 - Jan 2022
Scripts for downstream analysis of IDseq data
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 4 months
idseqdownstream
katrinakalantar/mNGSDiversity
Oct 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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