Tamsen Dunn
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Ghostdoc At UofA & SDSU) at National Science Foundation (NSF)
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolTamsen Dunn is a multidisciplinary research software engineer and postdoctoral fellow with 10+ years building clinically rigorous bioinformatics and resilient scientific software. She led development of Illumina’s Pisces variant-calling suite and other production-grade tools that supported the company’s first FDA-approved NGS panel, and now develops computational methods for polyploid genome evolution at UofA and SDSU. As founder of Bandit Bioscience she consulted across genomics, image analysis, and machine-learning-driven variant detection, bringing a product-minded approach to translational science. Her background spans physics and applied mathematics to a PhD in evolutionary biology, enabling novel algorithm design grounded in statistical modeling and systems thinking. She pairs experience in aerospace-grade sensor fusion and satellite simulation with a focus on robustness, anti-fragility, and deployable clinical software. Outside the lab she applies evolutionary and experimental-botany instincts to conservation and rock climbing, reflecting a pragmatic curiosity that drives cross-disciplinary innovation.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoPhD, Evolutionary Biology ( joint with UC Riverside), PhD, Evolutionary Biology ( joint with UC Riverside) at San Diego State University
Github Skills (15)
caller10
evolution5
substitution5
rna-seq4
seq4
genomics3
bioinformatics3
distributions3
genome3
snakemake3
simulation1
simulation-framework1
phylogeny1
scalable1
probabilistic1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tamsen/FSAtoBoecheraMSI
Sep 2022 - May 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 155 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
Illumina/Pisces
Dec 2015 - Dec 2020
Somatic and germline variant caller for amplicon data. Recommended caller for tumor-only workflows.
Contributions:7 releases, 59 commits, 2 PRs in 5 years 1 month
calleramplicontumorsomaticgermline
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