Michael Skinnider
Assistant Professor at Princeton University
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMichael Skinnider is an assistant professor at Princeton University and an MD/PhD researcher from the University of British Columbia who applies AI and machine learning to problems at the interface of biology, chemistry, and medicine. With 11 years of research experience beginning as an undergraduate researcher at McMaster, he combines clinical training with computational methods to translate biological insight into predictive models. His profile suggests a rare blend of hands-on biomedical expertise and algorithmic fluency, enabling collaborations across wet lab and computational teams. Based in Vancouver but embedded in an Ivy League research environment, he navigates both academic and translational research pathways. Colleagues know him for bridging disciplinary gaps—bringing data-driven rigor to medical questions that benefit from chemical and molecular perspectives.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor's of Arts & Science (B.ArtsSc.), Honours Bachelor's of Arts & Science (B.ArtsSc.) at McMaster UniversityMD/PhD, MD/PhD at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (37)
prism8
bioinformatics8
plot6
bioconductor5
annotations5
missing-data5
visualization4
jekyll4
r-package4
r-language4
tsne4
tidymodels4
tidy4
chemistry3
predictive-modeling3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
skinnider/skinnider.github.io
Aug 2019 - Jan 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:119 pushes in 5 years 6 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
neurorestore/Augur
Dec 2019 - Aug 2022
Cell type prioritization in single-cell data
Contributions:17 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
prioritizationbioinformaticssingle-cellcell-type
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