Zhaleh Safikhani
Principal Research Scientist II at AbbVie
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhaleh Safikhani is a Principal Research Scientist II with 11 years of experience applying machine learning to bioinformatics and drug discovery, currently based in Cambridge, MA. She blends deep academic training (PhD in Bioinformatics) with industrial leadership, having led ML teams at Cyclica and Skyhawk and now driving research at AbbVie. Her strengths include statistical inference at scale and turning complex biological data into actionable models, informed by a background as a software developer and team lead. Colleagues describe her as creative and passionately curious, able to bridge rigorous research and production-ready solutions. An oft-overlooked asset is her sustained cross-disciplinary trajectory—from software engineering to postdoctoral machine learning research—giving her rare fluency across code, models, and biology.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Amirkabir University of TechnologyPhD, Bioinformatics, PhD, Bioinformatics at University of Tehran
Github Skills (26)
r-package9
spatial-transcriptomics9
transcriptomics8
datasets8
r7
bioinformatics7
bioconductor7
rna-seq6
numba6
machine-learning5
python5
data-science4
gene-expression4
differential-expression4
webservice2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bhklab/RNASeqDrug
Aug 2016 - May 2018
Gene isoforms as expression-based biomarkers predictive of drug response in vitro
Contributions:18 commits, 10 pushes, 2 comments in 1 year 8 months
analysis
bhklab/PharmacoGxML
Mar 2018 - Jul 2019
Workshop for Machine Learning in pharmacogenomics
Contributions:37 commits, 34 pushes in 1 year 4 months
machine-learning
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