Robert Riley
Staff Data Scientist
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Riley is a Staff Data Scientist based in Cambridge with two decades of hands-on experience turning biological big data into scientific insight across national labs, academia, and industry. He specializes in metagenomics, environmental microbiology, and eukaryotic genome assembly, leading terabase-scale co-assemblies and tooling for complex fungal and algal genomes at Berkeley Lab. His work blends production-scale pipeline and software development with hypothesis-driven analysis, machine learning for phenotype prediction, and a knack for uncovering unexpected biology—such as uncovering a new genetic code and reshaping fungal decay paradigms. Previously he supported synthetic biology efforts at Amyris and curated pathogen genomics resources at the Broad Institute, bringing experience in NLP-driven curation and experimental collaboration. A published scientist and mentor with deep computational skills in Python/R and pipeline engineering, he excels at moving cutting-edge sequencing technologies from data generation to biological discovery.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Biomolecular Structure and Design, Biomolecular Structure and Design at University of WashingtonUniversity of California Santa CruzCertificate, Bioinformatics, Statistics minor, Certificate, Bioinformatics, Statistics minor at University of California, Los Angeles
French
Github Skills (72)
reproducible-science10
pipeline9
music9
owl9
biomedical9
wdl9
cli8
browser8
linux8
semantics8
shacl8
semantic-web8
modeling8
anvil8
linked-data8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rsc3/Deldupemia
Mar 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
DataBiosphere/biocore-data-model
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:43 commits, 132 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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