Leila Bagha
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of California, Berkeley
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLeila Bagha is a postdoctoral research fellow in bioinformatics at the University of Oxford and a UK-recognized Global Talent with eight years of experience bridging academic research and industry data science. Her PhD work and current research focus on cancer tumor evolution and novel clonal tree inference from advanced sequencing data, while prior industry roles—including Head of Data Science at PhazeRo and data science positions at UC Berkeley AMENA Center and Wareed—demonstrate strong applied ML and product-facing analytics skills. She has a proven track record building end-to-end data platforms and ETL solutions for complex organizations, having led data teams in aviation and developed production OCR and dashboarding systems. Comfortable across languages and stacks, she combines rigorous computational methods with practical deployment experience, and has published peer-reviewed work in bioinformatics and engineering. An unexpected thread in her career is early experience as an iOS developer and game programmer, reflecting a long-standing blend of software craftsmanship and analytical curiosity.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Research Fellow, Bioinformatics, Research Fellow, Bioinformatics at University of OxfordDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at University of TehranMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Sharif University of Technology
Github Skills (6)
ios5
tvos5
mpandroidchart1
ride1
javascript1
react1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
LeilaBagha/Conifer
May 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:20 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
LeilaBagha/scRNAseq-preprocessing-workflow
Aug 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
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