Maria Alves
Staff Bioinformatics Scientist
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMaria Alves is a Staff Bioinformatics Scientist at Illumina with 11 years of experience bridging computational methods and genomics research. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a Master’s in Bioinformatics and has built a track record from postdoctoral population-genetics research at UCLA to developing production genomic apps and workflows on Illumina’s Connect Analytics Cloud. Her expertise spans machine learning, statistical analysis, phylogenetics and population genetics, with hands-on skills in R, Python and Bash and a history of teaching and developing genomics curricula. Notably, she expanded PRDM9 phylogenies and analyzed RNA‑seq across vertebrates during a visiting scholarship at Columbia, demonstrating an unusual blend of large‑scale comparative genomics and applied software development. Based in New York, she focuses on turning complex genomic questions into deployable, reproducible analytics that accelerate R&D discovery.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Aarhus UniversityBachelor's Degree Biotechnology, Bachelor's Degree Biotechnology at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyBachelor's Degree Agronomy and Crop Science, Bachelor's Degree Agronomy and Crop Science at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
English, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish
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Github Skills (32)
genetic10
sequence-alignment10
cvs10
phylogenetics10
bioinformatics10
protein-structure10
genomics10
git-repository9
python9
biopython9
seq7
ncbi7
treeview7
rna-seq6
tree-structure6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
izabelcavassim/stdpopsim
Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
A library of standard population genetic models
Contributions:1 PR, 128 pushes, 15 branches in 7 months
genetic
izabelcavassim/PG_2018
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:97 commits, 3 PRs, 84 pushes in 2 months
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