Summary
Vinh Pham is a Senior Bioinformatics Support Scientist with a Ph.D. in Plant Molecular Genetics and Genomics and nine years of hands-on experience turning complex NGS datasets into actionable insights. Based in San Diego and currently at Illumina, he specializes in DRAGEN secondary analysis, TruSight Oncology 500 workflows for tissue and ctDNA, and end-to-end genomics pipelines spanning WGS, WES, RNA-Seq, metagenomics and targeted panels. Fluent in Linux and R, he builds reproducible analysis pipelines, performs gene expression network and co-expression analyses, and translates results for both research and clinical oncology use cases. A practiced communicator and educator, he has taught Carpentry workshops and authored knowledge-base content and webinars to demystify bioinformatics for users. Beyond technical execution, he combines wet-lab experience from earlier academic and field roles with a track record of publishing, giving him a rare bridge between molecular methods and scalable computational workflows.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Plant Molecular and Genetics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Plant Molecular and Genetics at Pohang University of Science and Technology
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Molecular Genetics/ Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Molecular Genetics/ Bioinformatics at The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor's degree, Biochemistry, Bachelor's degree, Biochemistry at Vietnam National University
Korean, Vietnamese, English