Kodi Taraszka
Instructor In Medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolKodi Taraszka is an Instructor in Medicine and postdoctoral researcher at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School with nine years of experience at the intersection of statistics, computer science, and biology. He develops and implements statistical methods and reproducible pipelines—particularly Bayesian GWAS and multi-study fine-mapping—to uncover the genetic architecture of complex phenotypes and somatic alterations in cancer. His work spans scalable data engineering (processing 100+ TB on AWS) to mentorship of trainees, reflecting both computational rigor and practical deployment skills. Trained with a PhD in Computer Science from UCLA and a BS in Statistics, he combines deep methodological expertise with hands-on experience translating large clinical and genomic datasets into actionable insights.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (6)
sequence-alignment8
traits5
gwas4
mouse3
bioinformatics3
loco2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
koditaraszka/pastamst
Mar 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
koditaraszka/COXMM
Apr 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:62 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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