Kim-anh Cao
Co-founder & Co-CEO (Science, Education & Community)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolKim-anh Cao is a statistical genomics professor, entrepreneurial co-founder, and leader with nearly two decades building multivariate methods for high-dimensional omics and translating them into research, clinical and industry impact. She directs Melbourne Integrative Genomics and the Lê Cao Lab, where her team develops the mixOmics R toolkit—used by roughly 30,000 researchers annually, cited over 6,000 times and embedded in 120+ patents—while training over 1,000 researchers through intensive workshops. As Co-CEO of mixOmics PRO she is scaling that open-source success into a sustainable product offering guided pipelines, enhanced training and new methods for complex study designs to cut analysis timelines from months to days. Her work spans academia, industry partnerships and quantum-biotech initiatives, reflecting a rare blend of mathematical engineering rigor and practical deployment at scale. Recognised with consecutive NHMRC fellowships and the Moran Medal, she combines deep methodological innovation with a sustained commitment to community stewardship and reproducible science.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Applied Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Applied Statistics at Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse IIIINSA Toulouse - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse
English, French, German
Github Skills (6)
genomics-visualization10
r-package10
bioconductor10
genomics9
r8
data-integration2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
BIRSBiointegration/whitePaper
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
Manubot for white paper
Contributions:306 commits, 23 PRs, 125 pushes in 3 months
manubotwhite-paperwhite
cran/mixOmics
May 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:5 commits in 1 year
omics-data-integrationdata-integrationomics
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