Viola Fanfani
Senior Scientist, Bioinformatics
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolViola Fanfani is a Senior Scientist in Bioinformatics with eight years of experience translating computational biology and machine learning into insights on cancer regulatory mechanisms. Trained with a PhD in Computational Biology from the University of Edinburgh and seasoned through postdoctoral roles at Harvard, she builds and applies statistical models and reproducible software to dissect regulatory changes driving cancer risk and progression. At the Quackenbush Lab she focused on regulatory network inference and now brings that expertise to industry at Unravel Biosciences, bridging academic rigor with translational impact. Beyond modeling, she has deep experience in developing reproducible computational workflows that make complex analyses auditable and shareable. Her background in biomedical engineering and an Erasmus traineeship in ML underline a rare mix of wet‑lab awareness and algorithmic fluency that accelerates discovery-to-therapeutic pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Biology at The University of EdinburghErasmus+ Traineeship Machine Learning, Erasmus+ Traineeship Machine Learning at University of Essexliceo ginnasio GalileoLaurea Magistrale LM Ingegneria biomedica, Laurea Magistrale LM Ingegneria biomedica at Università di Pisa
Github Skills (38)
package-management10
conda10
networkx10
bioinformatics10
biostatistics10
biology9
gwas9
bioconda9
genomics9
python8
network-analysis8
bayesian7
bayesian-inference7
statistics6
sparse6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
stracquadaniolab/pygna
Apr 2019 - Jan 2022
A Python package for gene network analysis
Contributions:165 commits, 25 PRs, 78 pushes in 2 years 9 months
network-biologynetworkxpythonenrichment-analysisgene-network
violafanfani/violafanfani.github.io
Apr 2020 - Sep 2024
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:36 pushes in 4 years 5 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
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