Leyla Tarhan
Lead Senior Science Writer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolLeyla Tarhan is a lead senior science writer in Cambridge, MA with eight years of experience translating complex software, biotech, and neuroscience topics into clear documentation, courses, and blog content. She has driven user-facing communication at research institutions including the Broad Institute and now Dana-Farber, collaborating closely with engineers, product managers, and scientists to make technical tools accessible to researchers. Trained as a cognitive scientist with a PhD from Harvard, she combines rigorous research instincts with product-minded writing—having also held product management and teaching roles. Outside institutional work she maintains a public portfolio of freelance and blog pieces, demonstrating a knack for turning deep technical detail into engaging educational content.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, PSYCHOLOGY, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, PSYCHOLOGY at Harvard UniversityBA, Cognitive Science and History, Distinction on Senior Thesis in Cognitive Science, BA, Cognitive Science and History, Distinction on Senior Thesis in Cognitive Science at Pomona College
Spanish, Italian, Swahili
Github Skills (10)
vault3
r2
hugo2
genomics2
anvil2
deep-learning2
wdl2
python2
statistics2
ruby1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lytarhan/BrainMoversDistance
Jul 2019 - Jan 2020
code demonstrating the use of Wasserstein Distance to calculate neural dissimilarities.
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 5 months
pythondeep-learningwassersteindistancewasserstein-distance
lytarhan/DockstoreWDLTest
Aug 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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