Mónica Torres
Associate Professor
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMónica Torres is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics with 25 years of genomics experience, currently leading standards and data capture efforts for Bridge2AI and GA4GH while based in Berkeley. She builds practical software and semantic standards that bridge comparative genomics, biocuration, and AI-driven data harmonization to accelerate translational research. Her career spans leadership roles from national labs and museums to academia, where she has created community annotation tools (e.g., WebApollo leadership) and managed large-scale curation programs. Passionate about broadening participation in genomics, she combines deep technical expertise in knowledge representation with hands-on project management to grow inclusive research communities. An early practitioner of integrative, semantic data science, she focuses on improving socio-technical practices that make genomic resources more reusable and equitable.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Genetics, Ph.D. Genetics at Clemson UniversityBachelor of Science Genetics Biology, Bachelor of Science Genetics Biology at Universidad del Valle (CO)
English, Spanish
Github Skills (120)
ontology10
java-server10
owl10
apollo10
backend10
schema10
grails10
gwt10
groovy10
go10
robot10
geneontology10
jbrowse10
monarchinitiative10
genome-annotation10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
cancerDHC/operations
Jul 2020 - May 2021
for operational functions
Contributions:28 commits, 16 PRs, 26 pushes in 10 months
operational
phoenixbio/training
Jan 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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