Samir Zaim
Supervisor, Statistics
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamir Zaim is a PhD statistician and biomedical data scientist with eight years of experience translating high-dimensional, multimodal biological and clinical data into actionable insights and scalable products. Currently a Supervisor of Statistics at the Allen Institute, he has led cross-functional teams to design and execute immunology and oncology studies, drive technical roadmaps, and shepherd high-priority manuscripts from concept to publication. His work spans end-to-end pipelines—data wrangling, feature engineering, statistical inference, ML, deep learning and LLMs—with demonstrated success in cutting compute costs 4× for epigenetics workflows and delivering NIH- and DoD-supported biomarker models. Samir pairs technical depth with strong science communication, presenting to executives and clinical boards, teaching workshops, and contributing to publications and a U.S. patent application. Based in Seattle, he combines academic rigor with product-minded leadership, often converting ambiguous research questions into reproducible, deployable analytics.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaColegio Internacional de Carabobo (Venezuela)Bachelor of Arts (BA), Mathematics/Statistics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Mathematics/Statistics at Carleton College
English, Spanish, French, Arabic
Github Skills (3)
bioconductor4
bioinformatics3
python2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
SamirRachidZaim/binomialRF
May 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:19 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
SamirRachidZaim/binomialRF.py
Sep 2020 - Apr 2022
Python implementation of binomialRF
Contributions:1 PR, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
python-implementationpython-3python
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