Lior Pachter
Bren Professor Of Computational Biology
Pasadena, California, United States
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Top SchoolLior Pachter is a Bren Professor of Computational Biology at Caltech with over a decade of experience at the intersection of mathematics, computer science, and genomics. Trained with a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from MIT and a BS in Mathematics from Caltech, he has held cross-disciplinary professorships and directed computational biology efforts at UC Berkeley before joining Caltech. Lior blends rigorous theoretical foundations with practical software contributions—evidenced by hands-on fixes and usability improvements to the influential kallisto RNA‑Seq quantification codebase. He advises industry on data and analytics for Amgen, translating academic insight into applied biotech impact. Colleagues value him for making complex algorithms accessible and for attention to detail that improves reproducibility and user experience.
11 years of coding experience
Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, Ph.D. Applied Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCalifornia Institute of TechnologyPalo Alto High SchoolPretoria Boys High School
English, Hebrew, German, Icelandic, Afrikaans
Github Skills (8)
rna-seq10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
error-handling9
file-handling8
file-processing8
fileio8
file-access8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pachterlab/kallisto
Jan 2015 - Jul 2019
Near-optimal RNA-Seq quantification
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:106 commits, 74 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Lior primarily contributed to the codebase by fixing typos and standardizing error messages. They corrected variable types and updated the file structure to ensure better readability. Their contributions also involved standardizing the error output to `cerr` and ensuring that the correct warnings are present, improving the user experience.
pseudoalignmentsequencernaseqkallistobioinformatics
pachterlab/pachterlab.github.io
Apr 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:94 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 11 months
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