Olaitan Awe
Research Computing Consultant at Harvard University
United States
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Top SchoolOlaitan Awe is a research computing consultant and genomic data analyst with eight years of hands-on experience applying bioinformatics, data science, and system administration to health and biotech problems. With a PhD in Bioinformatics and advanced training in project management and leadership from the University of Washington, she bridges rigorous computational methods and practical biomedical workflows. She has deep expertise in NGS/RNA‑Seq analysis, virus discovery, and cancer genomics, and routinely scales pipelines on HPC clusters and AWS. Comfortable working independently or in interdisciplinary teams, she thrives in fast-paced, entrepreneurial research environments. Beyond analysis, she brings a computer science and engineering background that enables her to optimize reproducible pipelines and infrastructure for sustained research impact. Based in the United States and currently consulting at Harvard, she pairs academic rigor with production-minded engineering to turn complex genomic data into actionable insights.
8 years of coding experience
Higher National Diploma, Project Management in Global Health, Higher National Diploma, Project Management in Global Health at University of WashingtonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at University of Ibadan
Github Skills (29)
clinical-trials9
discovery8
gene-expression8
libgit27
bioinformatics7
rna-seq7
version-control6
machine-learning6
shotgun6
git4
cancer-genomics4
microbiome4
cluster-analysis3
single-cell-genomics3
mining3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
NCBI-Hackathons/CTEligible
Jul 2018 - Jan 2019
Use machine learning to find patterns of similar eligibility protocol criteria for clinical trials
Contributions:39 commits, 33 pushes in 5 months
machine-learningclinical-trials
NCBI-Hackathons/Salphagome
Apr 2018 - May 2021
Novel Discovery of Phages from Salmonella Sequences
Contributions:97 commits, 93 pushes in 3 years
bioinformaticssalmonellaphagesdiscovery
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