Nima Mousavi
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolNima Mousavi is a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist with a decade of experience at the intersection of electrical engineering and computational biology, currently based in Oakland and working on precision genomics at BillionToOne. He earned advanced degrees from UC San Diego and built influential tools for genotyping short tandem repeats (GangSTR and TRTools) that enable analysis of STR expansions from short-read data. His background spans industry and academia—roles at 10x Genomics, Illumina, and Dyno Therapeutics—where he contributed to single-cell immune profiling, somatic variant calling, and scalable bioinformatics pipelines. Comfortable in languages and frameworks from Rust to statistical genomics, he combines algorithmic rigor with production-oriented engineering to move methods from prototype to deployed software. Unusually for a bioinformatician, he also cultivates a creative side in photography, reflecting a practiced attention to detail and composition.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at Young Scholars Club (YSC)Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering: Digital Systems, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering: Digital Systems at Sharif University of TechnologyDiploma Physics and Mathematics, Diploma Physics and Mathematics at Allame helliDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego Jacobs School of EngineeringPhotography, Photography at IPC (Iran Photographers Club) / خانهی عکاسان ایرانPhotography, Photography at YPC (Young Photographers Club) | خانه عکاسان جوان
Persian, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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16answers
24questions
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Github Skills (47)
genome10
tandem10
profiling10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
bam9
matrix9
python9
fasta8
sequence8
infectious-diseases8
sequencing8
htslib8
next-generation-sequencing8
bootstrap-sass7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
UCSD-SEELab/ContextEngine27
Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:31 commits, 6 PRs, 29 pushes in 3 months
pythonpython-2python-2-7
gymreklab/GangSTR
Jun 2017 - Apr 2021
A tool for profiling long STRs from short reads
Contributions:6 releases, 313 commits, 43 PRs in 3 years 10 months
profilinglongshort
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