Vasileios Stathias
Assistant Director, Data Science
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVasileios Stathias is an experienced data science leader and computational biologist with eight years driving AI-enabled drug discovery and multi-omics platform development. Based in Miami, he currently serves as Assistant Director, Data Science at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, where he leads the Sylvester Data Portal and strategic efforts to make pre-clinical and clinical data FAIR, secure, and AI-ready. His work bridges systems biology, machine learning, and cloud-scale bioinformatics to identify targeted therapies, predictive biomarkers, and synergistic drug combinations across cancers. Previously he designed the LINCS Data Portal and contributed core metadata and standardization pipelines for NIH consortia, demonstrating a blend of engineering rigor and domain-leading biomedical research. Colleagues value him for turning complex wet-lab and omics datasets into reproducible, governed computational assets that accelerate translational research. He combines a PhD in Human Genetics and Genomics with hands-on algorithm development and platform building—often working at the intersection of AI, drug mechanism elucidation, and clinical application.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) | Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics Population Genetics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) | Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics Population Genetics at Democritus University of Thrace - (D.U.Th.)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Human Genetics and Genomics [Computational Track], Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Human Genetics and Genomics [Computational Track] at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Greek, English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (17)
querying8
r-package7
gwas6
r6
bioinformatics5
genomics5
storage4
python3
database3
high-performance3
spark3
minio3
retrieval3
data-science2
data-storage2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
schurerlab/SynergySeq
Mar 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:23 commits, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 7 months
vstathias/minio.s3
Nov 2020 - Nov 2021
An R package to access MinIO storage and querying.
Contributions:6 pushes in 11 months
r-packagequeryingminio-storageminiostorage
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