Vanessa Aguiar-Pulido
Assistant Professor at University of Miami
Miami, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolVanessa Aguiar-Pulido is an Assistant Professor and head of the Data Science and Computational Biology Lab with a decade of experience translating machine learning, bioinformatics and big-data methods into biomedical and neurogenetic discovery. Holding a Ph.D. in Computer Science, she has led translational informatics projects at Weill Cornell Medicine and University of Miami focused on the genetic and environmental drivers of neurological disease and rare disorders. Her work spans ontology-driven semantic integration, epigenomics and omics-scale analytics, and she has a track record of developing new algorithms and metrics for metagenomics and comparative genomics. A collaborative researcher who has partnered across pharmacology, public health and neuroscience, she blends rigorous computational methods with an eye to clinical impact and diagnostics. Notably, her background includes a Stanford research stint on ontology recommendation and sustained mentoring and lab leadership across international academic settings.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of A CoruñaOccupational risk prevention, Occupational risk prevention at ISSGAEngineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at Universidad de A CorunaUOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
French, English, Spanish, galego
Github Skills (2)
gene-expression10
bioinformatics6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vaguiarpulido/vaguiarpulido.github.io
Aug 2016 - Jan 2025
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 6 months
vaguiarpulido/covid19-research
May 2020 - May 2021
Research on the effect of SARS-CoV-2 on human gene expression
Contributions:1 release, 34 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year
gene-expressionbioinformaticssars-cov-2genesars-cov
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