Timothy Stephens
Research Associate
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTimothy Stephens is a PhD-trained data scientist and research associate with a decade of interdisciplinary experience applying ML, multi-omics pipelines, and scalable data systems to real-world problems in ecology, genomics, and biomanufacturing. He combines academic rigor—30+ peer-reviewed publications and multiple patent filings—with hands-on startup leadership as co-founder and CTO of OceanOmics, where he led IP strategy and secured R&D funding. At Rutgers he has driven translational research to discover and deploy synthetic enzymes that convert waste streams into precision fermentation feedstocks and negotiated technology transfer agreements for prototype commercialization. He builds terabyte-scale processing pipelines and ML/computer-vision diagnostic platforms, and mentors teams to operationalize research through management plans and policy addenda. Comfortable moving between field work, global collaborations, and boardroom negotiations, he brings rare fluency at the intersection of AI-driven biology and product development. Based in New Jersey, he is particularly skilled at turning complex biological data into deployable assays and licensing-ready technologies.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at The University of Queensland
Github Skills (25)
genome8
metagenomics8
blast8
bioinformatics8
taxonomy8
rna-seq6
tidygraph6
assembly6
clustering5
ggraph5
r4
classify4
dna-sequences4
classification3
phylogenetic-trees3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TimothyStephens/naive_atlas
Jul 2024 - Jul 2026
ATLAS - Three commands to start analyzing your metagenome data
Contributions:1 release, 34 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
TimothyStephens/Genotype_Samples
Feb 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 release, 50 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
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