Oscar Rodriguez
Assistant Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolOscar Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor in Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai with 11 years of research experience at the intersection of genomics and adaptive immunity. He completed a PhD in Genetics and Genomic Sciences and progressed through postdoctoral positions—most recently leading projects in Dr. Corey Watson's lab—combining computational bioinformatics with experimental immunogenomics. His background includes interdisciplinary stints at Bar-Ilan University and the University of Washington, reflecting a track record of collaborative, cross-institutional research. Oscar bridges deep technical expertise in sequencing and immune repertoire analysis with practical software and data skills (see his personal site and GitHub pages), enabling reproducible genomic workflows that inform immune biology. Notably, his career path shows a pattern of moving between engineering-focused and clinical research environments, which strengthens his ability to translate computational methods into biological insights.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Biomolecular Science - Bioinformatics, Bachelor’s Degree, Biomolecular Science - Bioinformatics at New York UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Genetics and Genomic Sciences at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Spanish, English
Github Skills (18)
bioinformatics6
genomics5
expansion5
classifier5
random-forest-classifier5
structural-variation4
genomics-visualization4
bioconda4
python3
assembler3
random-forest3
network-analysis3
machine-learning3
semantics1
treemap1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
oscarlr-TRs/PacMonSTR-merge
Jan 2021 - May 2023
Contributions:1 release, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
oscarlr/MsPAC
Dec 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:112 commits, 104 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 11 months
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