Gavin Ha
Associate Professor
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGavin Ha is an Associate Professor at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center with over 14 years of computational biology and bioinformatics experience focused on cancer genomics and liquid biopsy research. He leads a lab that combines machine learning and AI to profile cancer genomes and to develop non-invasive circulating tumor DNA assays for detecting treatment resistance and blood-based biomarkers. His trajectory includes postdoctoral training at Broad, Dana-Farber, and Harvard Medical School, and a PhD in Bioinformatics from UBC, reflecting deep expertise spanning algorithm development to translational genomics. Based in Seattle, he blends academic leadership with hands-on method development, routinely translating complex sequencing signals into clinically relevant insights. Colleagues know him for bridging advanced computational methods with practical assay design—often finding subtle, clinically actionable patterns in noisy cfDNA signals.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Bioinformatics, PhD, Bioinformatics at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (13)
bioinformatics10
loss10
cancer-genomics10
sequencing10
structural-variation9
computational-biology8
rna-seq8
snakemake8
profiling7
data-science5
halo1
fractions1
dnd-tools1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gavinha/TitanCNA-utils
Jan 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
broadinstitute/ichorCNA
Jan 2017 - Dec 2019
Estimating tumor fraction in cell-free DNA from ultra-low-pass whole genome sequencing.
Contributions:1 release, 82 commits, 45 pushes in 2 years 11 months
sequencingcopy-numberlow-coverage-sequencingcell-free-dna
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