Sara Simmonds
Fellow AI Biohub at C10 Labs
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSara Simmonds is a computational biologist and AI-for-biology leader with eight years of experience building AI-powered platforms that translate genomics research into real-world impact. She has led end-to-end initiatives from foundational research to production—most notably driving computational biology for TranscriptFormer, a single-cell foundation model spanning 1.5 billion years of evolution (manuscript under revision at Science). Her work spans single-cell and metagenomics, genome assembly, large-scale data strategy, and cross-functional leadership that bridges research, engineering, and product teams. Based in Cambridge, she advises early-stage AIxBiotech founders and has a track record of creating platforms used by researchers globally. Unusually for a tech-focused researcher, she also founded and ran a boutique micro flower farm, demonstrating entrepreneurial grit and hands-on operational management alongside deep scientific expertise.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Honours, Zoology, Bachelor of Science - BS Honours, Zoology at University of TasmaniaUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Indonesian
Github Skills (21)
sequencing10
assembly9
bioinformatics7
structural-variation7
genomics7
phylogeny7
transcriptomics6
sequence-alignment6
census6
assembler5
pairwise5
molecule4
seq4
visualization3
pipeline-framework2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chanzuckerberg/shasta-docs
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:23 commits, 22 pushes in 3 days
0seastar0/starter-academic
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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