Lukas Wagner
Staff Scientist at National Center for Biotechnology Information
Rockville, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolLukas Wagner is a Staff Scientist with 8+ years of experience translating bench biology needs into robust transcriptomics datasets, software, and pipelines at the National Center for Biotechnology Information. He combines a PhD-level quantitative background in physics with hands-on bioinformatics to design RNA-Seq expression profiles, untargeted k-mer contamination screens, and metadata regularization that support tens of thousands of daily users. Lukas bridges biological and statistical analysis to produce easy-to-use transcription summaries and specifications for production software, and has led team hackathon implementations and applied CNNs to literature classification. Based in Rockville, MD, he brings a rare mix of deep analytic rigor and practical pipeline engineering that improves reproducibility and usability for research biologists.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics at Washington University in St. LouisPhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at The Ohio State University
Czech, French
Github Skills (3)
rna-seq4
bioinformatics3
system-analysis2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NCBI-Hackathons/MetadataTable
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:19 commits, 7 pushes in 4 months
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