Nezar Abdennur
Assistant Professor at UMass Chan Medical School
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNezar Abdennur is an Assistant Professor at UMass Chan Medical School who leads a computational lab investigating 3D genome organization, its interplay with the epigenome, and impacts on cell fate, aging, and disease. With 14 years of experience spanning biochemistry, mathematics, biophysics, and computational biology, he blends deep academic training (PhD, MIT) with practical scientific software development and open-source stewardship. His group builds foundational tools for genomic and multiomic data science, aiming to make large-scale Hi-C and related analyses more reproducible and accessible. Prior roles include postdoctoral research at MIT, a rapid-response data operations stint scaling wastewater surveillance during COVID-19, and industry fellowships that sharpened his translational and machine learning skills. Based in Newton, MA, he combines rigorous quantitative modeling with hands-on software engineering to bridge theory and infrastructure in genomics. An often-overlooked strength is his cross-disciplinary fluency that lets him translate wet-lab questions into scalable computational solutions.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Bioinformatics, Master of Science (MSc), Bioinformatics at University of Ottawa / Université d'OttawaPhD, Computational and Systems Biology, PhD, Computational and Systems Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (153)
tiles10
parser10
package-management10
python10
pandas-dataframe10
file-format10
indexed10
svg10
cython10
extensible10
genomics10
priority-queue10
r10
dataframes10
pandas10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
nvictus/svgpath2mpl
Apr 2016 - Jul 2022
SVG path parser for matplotlib
Contributions:3 releases, 55 commits, 8 PRs in 6 years 4 months
matplotlibparsersvg-pathsvgpython
abdenlab/oxbow
May 2023 - Jun 2026
Oxbow makes genomic data ready for high-performance analytics.
Contributions:12 releases, 38 reviews, 67 PRs in 3 years 1 month
apache-arrowbioinformaticsdata-sciencedataframefair-data
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