Nasim Sanati
Computational Biologist
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNasim Sanati is a computational biologist and AI systems engineer with 11 years of experience applying bioinformatics, graph data modeling, and machine learning to cancer and functional genomics problems. Based in Portland, Oregon, she currently builds graph data models at OHSU Knight Cancer Institute and has led research software and single-cell analysis projects across OHSU, Sage Bionetworks, Genentech, and Phylos. Her work spans production-grade tooling (Docker, cloud environments, R/Python pipelines) and research innovation—such as graph embeddings for protein function prediction and network-based predictors of cancer progression. She has a strong track record in consortium-scale data integration and automation, contributing to projects like Reactome, IDG/CEIT, TESLA, and multiple DREAM challenges. Nasim pairs a formal biomedical informatics master’s background with hands-on engineering, mentoring Google Summer of Code projects and open-source releases. Colleagues describe her as someone who translates complex biological questions into reproducible, scalable software and novel computational hypotheses.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology, Master’s Degree Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology at Oregon Health & Science UniversityBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Portland State UniversityPortland Community College
Persian, English
Github Skills (29)
content-analysis10
derived10
reveal-js10
slide10
slideshow10
python-client10
reveal10
pypi10
sage9
visualization9
api8
manifest7
python7
annotations6
bioinformatics4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
teslajoy/cacao-clinic
Feb 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:3 pushes in 5 years 2 months
teslajoy/d3Weather
Jun 2019 - Feb 2023
Self project weather app with DarkSky API, D3, and ParcelJS
Contributions:1 release, 6 pushes, 1 tag in 3 years 8 months
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