Summary
Rani Powers is a computational biologist-turned-founder and CEO with a decade of experience building software that turns complex multi-omics data into actionable insights. As founder of Pluto Bio and a senior staff scientist at the Wyss Institute, she blends hands-on engineering, product leadership, and translational science to deliver agentic analysis and visualization tools for biology teams. Her product leadership at Helix and HumanCode produced FDA-cleared and patented genomic platforms, demonstrating an ability to move innovations from research to regulated clinical and consumer products. Based in Boston, she pairs a PhD in Computational Bioscience with practical experience in ML-backed genetic trait prediction and visualization, making her equally fluent in experiments, data, and product strategy. Notably, she has repeatedly translated cutting-edge lab work into production software that accelerates scientific decision-making.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computational Bioscience, Ph.D. Computational Bioscience at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
B.A. Molecular Cellular Developmental Biology, B.A. Molecular Cellular Developmental Biology at University of Colorado Boulder