Syed Ali
PHD Candidate
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSyed Ali is a bioinformatician and PhD candidate in Health Informatics with nine years of experience bridging microbiology, computational biology, and data science. He has deep hands-on expertise in single-cell and NGS analysis—routinely processing million-cell datasets—plus RNA velocity, variant calling, isoform and mutational signature analyses using tools like cellranger and Freebayes. Equally fluent in R and Python, he builds reproducible analysis pipelines and interactive R Shiny apps, and has applied ML techniques (including LSTM models) in earlier data-science roles. His background in wet-lab microbiology and protein structure work (PyMol/X-ray crystallography) gives him uncommon end-to-end insight into experimental design and downstream computational interpretation. Based in Saint Paul, MN, Syed combines academic research at top institutions with practical product-facing data science experience, making him effective at turning complex biological data into actionable discoveries.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Health Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Health Informatics at University of MinnesotaHigh School Diploma High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School Diploma High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Cambridge International DubaiMaster's degree Bioinformatics, Master's degree Bioinformatics at University of Guelph
Github Skills (34)
language-detection9
part-of-speech-tagger8
sentiment-analysis8
pyspark8
spark-ml8
entity-extraction7
question-answering7
nlp7
bert6
natural-language-processing6
text-classification6
machine-translation6
spark6
tensorflow5
language-processing5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SyedShahzaib790/A-Multi-Approach-Generalized-Framework-for-Automated-Solution-Suggestion-of-Support-Tickets
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
An open source python-based framework for generating resolution recommendations for Ticket Support Systems
Contributions:15 commits, 16 pushes in 3 months
pythonresolutionsupport-ticketrecommendationssource-python
SyedShahzaib790/stringo
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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