Sayoni Das
VP Of Bioinformatics
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSayoni Das is a VP of Bioinformatics based in London with 11 years of experience turning computational biology research into product-ready precision medicine tools. She progressed from PhD and postdoc work at UCL—where she developed top-ranked protein function prediction methods and led initiatives like FunSites and PDBe-KB—to senior and leadership roles at PrecisionLife, driving combinatorial genetic insights for disease stratification and target discovery. Comfortable bridging research and product, she blends deep method development (machine learning for functional sites, FunFams pipelines) with team leadership and platform delivery. Notably, her background combines biochemical engineering training from IIT Delhi with hands-on bioinformatics that has repeatedly performed at the top of international competitions, reflecting both technical rigor and a strong track record of translating complex science into actionable clinical insight.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)B.Tech, Biotechnology, Bronze Medalist in University, B.Tech, Biotechnology, Bronze Medalist in University at Heritage Institute of TechnologyUniversity College London
Github Skills (21)
viterbi9
bioinformatics8
structural-biology7
annotations7
throughput7
protein-structure7
predictor6
computational-biology5
cpp5
sequence-alignment5
classification4
genomics4
simd4
python3
database3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
UCLOrengoGroup/cath-tools-genomescan
Jun 2017 - Mar 2019
CATH: high-throughput protein structure/function annotations
Contributions:30 commits, 6 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 9 months
annotationsbioinformaticsprotein-structurehigh-throughputthroughput
sayonidas03/cath-tools-genomescan
Jun 2017 - Feb 2019
CATH: high-throughput protein structure/function annotations
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 8 months
annotationsbioinformaticsprotein-structurehigh-throughputthroughput
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