Lucas Patel
Graduate Student Researcher
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Patel is an M.D./Ph.D. student and graduate researcher at UC San Diego with a decade of experience at the intersection of bioinformatics, imaging, and clinical informatics. He blends hands-on software engineering experience from roles at Illumina with academic research in pediatric microbiome and cellular/molecular medicine labs, bringing both production-grade coding and wet-lab insight to translational projects. His work focuses on applying AI and computational methods to improve diagnostics and therapeutics, informed by sustained research in vaccine discovery and biomedical informatics. Based in San Diego, he uniquely navigates clinical training and systems biology PhD work, enabling rapid prototyping of tools that bridge bench, clinic, and cloud. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex biological questions into scalable software and reproducible analyses.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (43)
san8
bioinformatics7
case-control7
brain-computer-interface7
microbiome7
diego7
computational-biology7
regression6
removal6
evaluation6
toolbox6
matching5
biology5
netlify4
inference4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lucaspatel/nsmb_mousehic
Nov 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes in 2 years 5 months
lucaspatel/dotfiles
Feb 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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