Omar Ahmed
PostDoc In Sanjana & Lappalainen Labs at New York Genome Center
Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolOmar Ahmed is a computational biologist and software-focused researcher with eight years of experience bridging molecular biology and bioinformatics, currently a postdoctoral researcher at the New York Genome Center in the Sanjana & Lappalainen labs. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins and a dual Physics/Computer Science BSc and MSc from Lehigh, combining quantitative rigor with practical lab skills. His work spans RNA-seq and gene fusion modeling (including an internship improving Illumina’s DRAGEN RNA fusion model), algorithmic programming in C/C++/Python/R/Java, and hands-on molecular techniques like in-situ hybridization and FRAP. A seasoned tutor and writing fellow, Omar brings strong communication and pedagogy to collaborative projects and has developed educational tools such as student-produced tutorial videos. He’s equally comfortable prototyping lab assays and optimizing software pipelines, making him effective at turning biological questions into reproducible computational workflows. Based in Allentown, PA, he blends experimental intuition with production-minded coding to accelerate genomics research.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityMaster of Science Degree, Computer Science, Master of Science Degree, Computer Science at Lehigh University
English, Arabic, Spanish
Github Skills (15)
matching10
pan10
bioinformatics9
mer8
statistics8
genome7
genomics5
fm-index4
gitlab2
fasta2
python2
genetics1
fine-mapping1
gwas1
meta-analysis1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
oma219/genome_info_curve
Nov 2020 - Oct 2023
Genome Utility
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
bioinformaticsgenomegenomics
oma219/cliffy
Nov 2022 - Jul 2024
Compute document array profiles for an input text
Contributions:10 releases, 11 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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