Russell Williams
Staff Computational Biologist
Rockville, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolRussell Williams is a Staff Computational Biologist with 14 years of experience translating genomics research into production-scale NGS and sequencing solutions. He has led high-throughput teams that processed hundreds of thousands of clinical and research samples annually, implemented RNA-seq at scale, and built custom R and Python pipelines to standardize and troubleshoot complex workflows. His work spans academic discovery—identifying novel cancer metastasis factors—to industry innovation in nanopore sequencing and immune repertoire methods that improved antibody production efficiency. At Meso Scale Diagnostics he combined custom sample prep with machine learning (Keras) to tackle challenging sample types, showing a pragmatic blend of wet-lab and computational skills. Based in Rockville, MD, Russell is known for lowering cost and turnaround time through protocol optimization while preserving data integrity at scale. He brings a rare combination of hands-on lab leadership, production engineering, and applied analytics that accelerates translational genomics.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S.E., Biomedical Engineering, B.S.E., Biomedical Engineering at Duke UniversityPh. D., Biomedical Science, Ph. D., Biomedical Science at The George Washington University
Github Skills (1)
python8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
Transcriptase/Game
Jan 2012 - Dec 2015
A simple text adventure to help me learn Python
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 11 months
learn-pythonpythonpython3text-adventure
Transcriptase/sonnet
Sep 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:26 pushes, 12 branches in 8 months
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