Timothy Stephens
Research Associate
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTimothy Stephens is a PhD-trained data scientist and research associate with a decade of interdisciplinary experience applying ML, multi-omics pipelines, and scalable data systems to real-world problems in ecology, genomics, and biomanufacturing. He combines academic rigor—30+ peer-reviewed publications and multiple patent filings—with hands-on startup leadership as co-founder and CTO of OceanOmics, where he led IP strategy and secured R&D funding. At Rutgers he has driven translational research to discover and deploy synthetic enzymes that convert waste streams into precision fermentation feedstocks and negotiated technology transfer agreements for prototype commercialization. He builds terabyte-scale processing pipelines and ML/computer-vision diagnostic platforms, and mentors teams to operationalize research through management plans and policy addenda. Comfortable moving between field work, global collaborations, and boardroom negotiations, he brings rare fluency at the intersection of AI-driven biology and product development. Based in New Jersey, he is particularly skilled at turning complex biological data into deployable assays and licensing-ready technologies.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at The University of Queensland
Github Skills (28)
blast9
genome8
metagenomics8
bioinformatics8
taxonomy8
seq7
rna-seq6
clustering6
assembly6
classify5
dna-sequences3
sequence3
git-repository2
sequence-alignment2
statistics2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TimothyStephens/Genotype_Samples
Feb 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 release, 50 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
TimothyStephens/Utils
Apr 2021 - Feb 2024
Contributions:12 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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