Peter Mchale
Associate Director, Research & Science (Computational Biology)
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Mchale is an Associate Director in Computational Biology with nine years of experience building software and AI agents to interpret clinical genomics data, blending a PhD in theoretical physics with hands-on ML and bioinformatics engineering. He leads research-grade pipelines and tools—ranging from variant-calling workflows and tumor-growth Monte Carlo simulations to LLM-driven rare-disease inference and agent frameworks for genomics teams—while deploying scalable solutions on AWS, Kubernetes and workflow systems like Nextflow. A former university lecturer in mathematics, he pairs rigorous theoretical foundations with practical implementations (PyTorch, TensorFlow, GNNs, diffusion models) and a strong publication record on bias and generalizability in genomic ML. Notably, his open-source projects span end-to-end genomics tooling and experimental AI agents, reflecting a rare combination of academic depth, teaching experience, and production engineering.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Theoretical Physics, PhD, Theoretical Physics at University of CambridgeBA, Theoretical Physics, BA, Theoretical Physics at Trinity College Dublin
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Github Skills (87)
structural-variation10
genomics10
editor10
electron10
typescript10
visual-studio-code10
privacy10
federated-learning10
illumina10
secure-computation9
ai9
python9
deep-learning9
microsoft9
pytorch9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
petermchale/denoising_coverage_profiles
Aug 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:105 commits, 93 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
petermchale/trfermikit
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Discover VNTR-associated DELs that are hard to find using Illumina reads
Contributions:756 commits, 2 PRs, 743 pushes in 2 years 2 months
illuminagenomicsillumina-sequencingrare-diseaserare-variant-analysis
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