Samantha Piekos
Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolSamantha Piekos is an interdisciplinary computational biologist and Assistant Professor with nine years of experience applying AI and systems biology to precision medicine, particularly maternal-fetal health. Trained as both a bench scientist (PhD Stanford, stem cell biology) and data scientist, she builds and analyzes multi-omics, wearable, clinical, and environmental datasets to map molecular networks and predict obstetric risks. Her work at institutions including Google, Institute for Systems Biology, and University of Pennsylvania combines ML, LLMs, and knowledge graphs to detect early deviations in biological transitions and design targeted interventions. She also translates complex science to broad audiences as founder and president of a Stanford science writing outreach group and organizer of student science communication programs. Based in Philadelphia, she studies climate-mediated exposures (e.g., wildfire smoke, extreme heat) on pregnancy outcomes, blending population-level epidemiology with personalized, longitudinal deep-phenotyping. Colleagues value her collaborative, team-oriented approach and rare dual fluency in wet-lab epigenomics and computational AI methods.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biological Sciences; Psychology, 3.92, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biological Sciences; Psychology, 3.92 at University of Notre DameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, 4.0 at Stanford University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
csv10
grpc-go10
data-access10
schema10
api-server9
mixer9
commons9
api9
graph9
translator9
go8
client-library8
python-client8
python-api8
python6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
spiekos/data
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 103 pushes, 29 branches in 1 year 4 months
suhana13/data
Aug 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 67 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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