R Stacey
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolR Stacey is a Senior Bioinformatics Consultant based in Vancouver with over 20 years of computational research experience and a decade of applied bioinformatics and data science practice. He combines a PhD in Computational Neuroscience and a physics background to develop machine-learning pipelines for biochemical and biological data—authoring PrInCE, the first ML-based pipeline for biochemical fractionation. His work spans drug development, protein interaction databases, and robust approaches to clustering noisy data, with multiple first-author publications and experience in neuroscience and astrophysics research. Known as a "data nerd" on GitHub, he excels at translating complex mathematical models and statistical methods into practical tools for cross-functional teams. Notably, he has bridged academic innovation and industry consulting, bringing rigorous scholarship to production-ready bioinformatics solutions.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Physics (Hons), Bachelor's Degree Physics (Hons) at University of AlbertaDoctor of Philosophy Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy Computational Biology at McGill University
English, French
Stackoverflow
489reputation
26kreached
4answers
25questions
Github Skills (36)
command-line-interface8
mass-spectrometry8
cran7
database6
anaconda6
ide6
variational-autoencoder6
github6
enviroment6
dataframe6
java6
single-cell-genomics6
slurm6
lstm5
generative-adversarial-network5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
GregStacey/Julienne
Dec 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:139 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
fosterlab/PrInCE-Matlab
Nov 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:193 commits, 235 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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