Ousman Mahmud
Senior Application Scientist
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOusman Mahmud is a Senior Application Scientist and AI solutions expert with nearly a decade of experience applying AI, ML, NLP and bioinformatics to real-world life sciences and clinical problems. He combines a PhD in Genetics and hands-on genomics work at IBM Watson Health and St. Jude with production-focused skills in Python, shell scripting, HPC, variant calling and dashboarding to deliver customer-facing solutions at IQVIA. Comfortable bridging research and product, he has built computational pipelines, collaborated closely with wet-lab teams, and translated complex genomic and clinical data into actionable insights. His multidisciplinary background spans infectious disease genomics, phylogenetics and digital health, and he brings practical expertise in prompt engineering and generative AI to modernize informatics workflows. Based in Cambridge, MA, he’s equally at home benchmarking bioinformatics tools and shaping NLP-driven analytics for pharma and healthcare customers.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Biology at Rust CollegeUniversity of GeorgiaSummer Institute in Bioinformatics, Summer Institute in Bioinformatics at Pittsburgh Supercomputing CenterMaster of Science (M.S.) Biology, Master of Science (M.S.) Biology at Jackson State University
English, Wolof, mandinka, serer
Github Skills (11)
chimera7
fasta7
bioinformatics6
microbiome6
fastq6
metagenomics6
clustering5
sequence-alignment5
sequencing4
immunology3
partitioning2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Zoites/zoites.github.io.old
Oct 2017 - Dec 2025
Contributions:73 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 3 months
Zoites/One-Liners
Jun 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:40 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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