Ruifan Pei
Computational Scientist I
Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolRuifan Pei is a computational scientist with 7 years of cross-disciplinary experience applying Python-driven data science to bioinformatics and imaging problems. Currently at Bayer and formerly a visiting scientist at the Broad Institute, Ruifan builds robust analysis pipelines for high-dimensional cell imaging and has contributed improvements to open-source tooling for Cell Painting data. Proficient in the SciPy stack, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, pandas, and SQL, they translate noisy experimental data into quantitative insights that suggest biological mechanisms and potential disease drivers. Prior roles in biomedical engineering and quantitative trading reflect an ability to design experiments, lead small teams, and make fast, data-informed decisions under uncertainty. Comfortable as an independent contractor, Ruifan also brings practical experience training image segmentation models and delivering analytics for early-stage startups. Based in Waltham, MA, they thrive in fast-learning environments juggling multiple projects where rigorous, reproducible code meets biological discovery.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Chemical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (30)
python10
trading10
finance10
cellprofiler10
quantitative-finance10
algorithmic-trading10
microscopy10
statistical-learning9
image-processing9
prediction-model9
machine-learning9
mass-spectrometry9
keras9
object-detection8
stochastic-processes8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Stuj79/research
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Notebooks based on financial machine learning.
Contributions:39 commits in 21 days
financialpythondata-sciencemachine-learningfinancial-machine-learning
ruifanp/pycytominer
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
cytominer python package
Contributions:13 pushes in 3 months
python-packagepythoncytoscapejscytominer
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.