Nicholas Socci
Director Bioinformatics Core
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Socci is a computational scientist and bioinformatics leader with over a decade of experience directing large-scale genomics and cancer informatics efforts. As Director of the Bioinformatics Core at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and CSO of Pyrodigm, he manages teams building genomic pipelines, research applications, and high-performance computing resources that support institution-wide discovery. Trained as a physicist (Harvard AB, UC Berkeley PhD), he brings a quantitative, systems-level approach to statistical methodology and machine learning applied to complex biological datasets. His career bridges academia, industry, and national labs—translating theoretical biophysics and computational methods into practical tools for cancer research. Notably, he combines hands-on pipeline deployment with strategic oversight, ensuring reproducible, production-ready analyses that inform translational science.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Physics, PhD Physics at University of California, BerkeleyA.B. Physics, A.B. Physics at Harvard University
English
Github Skills (50)
next-generation-sequencing10
seq10
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
vep10
maf10
preprocessing9
reproducible-research9
nextflow9
perl9
conda9
pipeline9
nf-core9
genome8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
soccin/integrate
Jun 2024 - Oct 2025
Wrapper code for INTEGRATE application: RNA+DNA SV/Fusion calling
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 4 months
soccin/ChIPSeqKeeneyV2
Mar 2017 - Mar 2021
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch, 2 tags in 4 years
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