Shila Ghazanfar
Senior Lecturer at University of Sydney
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolShila Ghazanfar is a Senior Lecturer and statistical bioinformatics researcher with 10 years' experience translating high-throughput sequencing data into actionable biological insights. She holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Sydney and completed postdoctoral training at Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and EMBL-EBI, blending rigorous statistical methodology with cutting-edge computational biology. At the University of Sydney she progressed from PhD student to DECRA fellow and now senior lecturer, leading interdisciplinary projects that combine data visualisation, R Shiny apps and robust statistical modelling. Known for bridging theory and practice, she often turns complex sequencing challenges into accessible tools and reproducible workflows for researchers across life sciences.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
Stackoverflow
49reputation
4kreached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (29)
correlation10
spatially-resolved-transcriptomics9
bioconductor9
gene-expression9
spatial-transcriptomics8
bioinformatics7
datatables6
transcriptomics6
igraph6
shiny6
atlas6
r6
network-analysis6
genomics5
journal5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MarioniLab/StabMap
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:35 commits, 14 pushes, 4 comments in 11 months
MarioniLab/StabMap2021
Feb 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:52 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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