Martin Smith
Member at Stealth BioTech Startup
Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Smith is a computational biologist and genomics leader with 12 years of experience translating sequencing technology and machine learning into clinical and research impact. Currently directing the Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics and holding academic appointments at UNSW while co-founding a stealth biotech, he bridges academic rigour with entrepreneurial drive across nanopore sequencing, RNA therapeutics and regulatory genomics. His career spans leadership roles implementing genomic technologies at Garvan and founding nanopore.ca, demonstrating hands-on expertise in deploying cutting-edge sequencing for clinicians and researchers. Martin’s work often sits at the interface of technology development and translational application, turning complex genomic assays into operational services and diagnostics. He maintains an international collaborative footprint, including AI-applied pediatric acute care research, and uniquely combines wet-lab insight with computational depth from a PhD in genomics and computational biology.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of science, Bioinformatics, Masters of science, Bioinformatics at Université de Montréal / University of MontrealDoctor of philosophy, Genomics and computational biology, Doctor of philosophy, Genomics and computational biology at The University of QueenslandBachelors of Science, Biological sciences - Microbiology and immunology, Bachelors of Science, Biological sciences - Microbiology and immunology at Université de Montréal
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (75)
seq9
genome-assembly9
bioinformatics9
rna-seq8
electrophysiology8
genomics8
transcript8
structural-variation8
cytoscapejs8
signal-processing7
autoencoder7
sequence-alignment7
pairwise7
genome7
science6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
noncodo/BigRedButton
Apr 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:3 releases, 74 commits, 64 pushes in 1 year 11 months
noncodo/DotAligner
Mar 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 69 pushes, 9 branches in 8 months
plotsdotalign
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