Michael Gandal
Software Engineer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Gandal is a software engineer and physician-scientist leading developmental neurogenomics research at Penn Medicine and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, translating large-scale genetic and genomic brain profiling into insights about neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disease mechanisms. Trained in bioengineering and medicine at Stanford, UPenn, and UCLA, he combines deep wet-lab and clinical experience with advanced computational methods—single-cell, spatial, long-read sequencing and multimodal machine learning—to prioritize biological targets from complex datasets. With over 15 years of research across human genetics, transcriptomics, neuroimaging, electrophysiology, and animal models, he bridges clinical questions and computational solutions to accelerate translational discovery. Based in Philadelphia, he is an associate professor who brings clinician perspective to bioinformatics pipelines, uniquely aligning patient-centered research goals with scalable genomics and statistical frameworks.
10 years of coding experience
MD, PhD, Bioengineering / Neuroscience, MD, PhD, Bioengineering / Neuroscience at University of PennsylvaniaInternship and Residency, Psychiatry Residency Program, Internship and Residency, Psychiatry Residency Program at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLABachelor of Science - BS, Engineering (concentration in Biomedical Computation), Bachelor of Science - BS, Engineering (concentration in Biomedical Computation) at Stanford University
Github Skills (50)
discord10
gmail10
whatsapp10
security9
slack9
telegram9
anthropic8
bioinformatics7
fine-mapping7
rna-seq6
jack6
yang5
nextflow5
semantic-similarity5
slurm5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mgandal/nanoclaw
Mar 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 82 pushes in 4 months
gandallab/Dev_Brain_IsoSeq
Mar 2023 - May 2024
Bulk (CP/GZ) and single-cell Iso-Seq in the developing human brain
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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