Summary
Simon Chow is a programmer-analyst and computational biologist with nine years of hands-on experience turning messy biological data into actionable insights using R, Java, SQL and modern web technologies. A University of Washington dual major in Informatics and Biology and current CMU MS student, he has applied statistical testing and visualization to thousands of genes in pathogen stress-response studies and built production-oriented data tools such as an RNA-seq prototype database and relational schemas for Alzheimer research. Now based in Greater Boston and working at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, he blends wet-lab familiarity with reproducible data pipelines and polished front-end demos (including a personal React portfolio) to bridge bench science and engineering. Notably, he has taught R and physiology, streamlined grading and workflow processes, and repeatedly pairs biological intuition with pragmatic software design to accelerate research and public health outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Informatics, Cumulative: 3.81 | Informatics: 4.0, Bachelor's degree, Informatics, Cumulative: 3.81 | Informatics: 4.0 at University of Washington
Master of Science - MS, Computational Biology, 3.84/4.33, Master of Science - MS, Computational Biology, 3.84/4.33 at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese, Spanish