Tim Dunn
Staff Bioinformatics Scientist
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Dunn is a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist with a decade of experience blending algorithm development, machine learning, and genome sequencing to solve practical genomics problems. He holds a CS PhD from the University of Michigan and built vcfdist—the first tool for accurate phased whole-genome evaluation across variant types—and nPoRe, an improved alignment approach for STRs that materially raised indel recall. His work spans cloud-integrated clinical genomics, real-time nanopore filtering to cut sequencing waste, and fine-tuning LLMs for healthcare messaging, demonstrating both systems and ML fluency. Now at Fulcrum Genomics, he applies rigorous research-led engineering to production bioinformatics pipelines, with a track record of open-source tools and reproducible benchmarks that bridge academic innovation and industry impact.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of MichiganHonors Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Honors Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Clarkson University
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (130)
firmware10
low-level10
structural-variation10
low-level-programming10
genomics10
operating-system10
system-programming10
linux-kernel10
sequence-alignment10
pairwise10
sequencing10
assembly10
c-programming10
hardware10
bioinformatics10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
TimD1/pysam
Jan 2022 - Mar 2026
Pysam is a Python module for reading and manipulating SAM/BAM/VCF/BCF files. It's a lightweight wrapper of the htslib C-API, the same one that powers samtools, bcftools, and tabix.
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 2 months
bcftoolsapipythonbcfpowers
TimD1/S4-Simple-Small-SDP-Solver
Jul 2018 - Feb 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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