Samantha Riesenfeld
Assistant Professor at University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolSamantha Riesenfeld is an Assistant Professor in Molecular Engineering and Genetic Medicine at the University of Chicago with 15 years of experience at the interface of computational biology and genomics. Trained in computer science (Ph.D., UC Berkeley) and mathematics/computer science (A.B., Harvard), she leads an interdisciplinary lab that applies genomics-based data science to probe the immune system and other complex biological networks. Her work blends rigorous algorithmic training with wet-lab collaboration, enabling novel insights from high-dimensional genomic datasets. Based in Chicago, she has built a research program that translates computational methods into biologically actionable findings and routinely mentors students across computation and experimental disciplines. An implicit strength is her ability to bridge theoretical CS approaches with practical biomedical problems, positioning her group to uncover mechanisms that standard pipelines often miss.
15 years of coding experience
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyB.A., Mathematics, Computer Science, B.A., Mathematics, Computer Science at Harvard University
Italian, French
Github Skills (9)
cran10
genomics9
single-cell-genomics9
bioinformatics9
nmf3
factorization3
r-package3
matrix-factorization2
matrix2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sriesenfeld/MetaPASSAGE
Nov 2010 - Jan 2013
Contributions:26 commits in 2 years 2 months
sriesenfeld/CompoHeatMap
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 15 pushes in 3 months
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