Summary
Ousman 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.
8 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 College
University of Georgia
Summer Institute in Bioinformatics, Summer Institute in Bioinformatics at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Master of Science (M.S.) Biology, Master of Science (M.S.) Biology at Jackson State University
English, Wolof, mandinka, serer