Introduce yourself here to get involved

[dhimmel]

Are you interested in getting involved in Project Cognoma? If so, introduce yourself here.

I'll begin. I'm Daniel Himmelstein, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Greene Lab. I'm excited to help lead Project Cognoma. My background is in biological data science. I mostly program in Python and R. I know the pandas package in Python and dplyr/tidyr in R. I also work with hetnets in Neo4j. You can see some of my past work on Thinklab, my blog, or at het.io.

@gwaygenomics and @cgreene will also be helping lead this project.

[awm33]

My name is Andrew Madonna, I'm a software engineer at RJMetrics. I work on large scale web applications with heavy distributed data backends. I program in Clojure (runs on the JVM) during my day job. I've also used Node.js in a distributed environment. I haven't used python beyond scripting, but I usually pick up things fast.

[dcgoss]

My name is Derek Goss, I'm a rising junior at Harriton High School. Here is my website.

Currently, I'm almost done building a social network called Pickle (updated website coming soon), where I work across the full stack of cloud (AWS & Google Cloud), backend (Python & Django & Postgres & Docker & Kubernetes), and frontend (iOS/Swift & web). I am somewhat new to data science and machine learning.

I look forward to meeting all of you!

[AGanguli]

My name is Ami. I'm a software engineer with a broad range of experience, including most of the stack used at the lab (but not the machine learning libraries).

[cgreene]

My name is Casey. I run a research lab at Penn. I've got experience with Django development, machine learning, and cancer genomics. I'm looking forward to pitching in where I can and to attending as many hack nights as I'm able to.

[tkhunkhe]

My name is Kwan. I'm a summer intern at Computational Medicine Center, Jefferson Univerity. I'm a
rising senior at Univerity of Rochester double major in Data Science and Computational Biology. Right
now, I'm using H2O deep learning package in R to find if some particular noncoding RNA molecules
played roles in the translation process. I'm doing pan-cancer analysis on the TCGA dataset. I've got
experience with python (pandas, scikit), R and Java. I could help with data munging 😅, machine learning,
and genomics. I can attend all the hack nights until the end of August. I also will be free during the day in
August and willing to help on this project.

[gwaybio]

My name is Greg Way and I am a PhD student in the GCB Program at Penn. I work in Python and R and have experience with machine learning and cancer genomics. In the Greenelab, we are part of the TCGA PanAtlas initiative and are looking forward to getting machine learning into the hands of cancer biologists!

[stephenshank]

My name is Stephen Shank, and I'm a postdoc at the Center for Computational Genetics and Genomics at Temple University. I'm a mathematician by training and am currently working on evolutionary genomics. A lot of my work overlaps with machine learning. I also do freelance web development. I primarily work in Python (scientific Python stack, Django) and dabble in D3. I think this is an exciting project and am looking forward to contributing.

[mydpy]

Hi,

My name is Myles Baker. I'm a data science & engineering consultant at CapTech. I live in Richmond, Virginia but my client is in Philadelphia. I've been pretty quiet in the Data Philly meetup group, but I'm passionate about the group's goals and want to contribute where I can. I help organize Cassandra and Spark meetups in Richmond.

My background is in applied mathematics and advanced statistics. I've done research in numerical methods for nonlinear partial differential equations and have worked in distributed computing environments for my entire career. I've built software in aerospace, financial, health care, and telecommunications industries. My sweet spot is building linearly scalable, highly available data architectures that involve lots of compute / advanced algorithms.

Thanks for organizing this! I'm excited to contribute.

[ChanningPing]

Hi,
My name is Qing Ping. I'm a PhD student in Information Science at Drexel.  Currently I've been working on video comments mining for summarization of video content.  I work in Java, Python and R. I've also had some experiences in Neo4j, D3.js, sklearn, NLTK.
I'm so excited about this project, and looking forward to contributing.

[DCousminer]

Hi all, I'm Diana Cousminer, a geneticist and postdoc in the neighboring lab of Ben Voight at UPenn and Struan Grant's lab at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. I'm very much a biologist, with wetlab and statistical genetics experience, but I joined Ben's lab to improve my computational thinking. My husband Ami actually pulled me into this (very interesting!) project to translate the "biology-speak," so I'm hoping he will be willing to translate the computational stuff back to me as well, and we'll both learn something in the process. Cheers!

[mike19106]

Hey, I'm Michael.

I'm a Data Engineer, and Organizer of PhillyDB

I'm looking to make contributions in the data tier - acquisition, cleansing, loading, etc. I've been itching to use a graph database

Also hoping to increase my understanding of ML

[clairemcleod]

Hi everyone, I'm Claire.

I'm a PhD student in Bioengineering at Penn, where I work with Rob Mauck and Arjun Raj. My thesis focuses on stem cell heterogeneity and single cell analysis of gene and protein expression data. I primarily use R and am in the process of transitioning to Python/pandas/sklearn.

This seems like an excellent project and I am looking forward to contributing! I am hoping to gain experience in either the data science/ML or visualization aspects of this project.

[rzelayafavila]

Hi all, my name is Rene and I am a programmer in the Greene Lab. My main experience is working with both in the backend with Python and Django and in the front end with JavaScript (and the AngularJS framework), HTML and CSS to make bioinformatics tools accessible to biologists. I am excited to see this project take off and will be coming to the hack nights to help however I can!

[htcai]

Hi all,

I am Haitao. I am graduating from the Linguistics Department at Penn with an MA. I was specializing in semantics and pragmatics and also did side projects involving data mining and natural language processing using Python. I am rapidly acquiring and strengthening my skills in data science (Coursera), machine learning (Udacity) and Spark (edX).

Looking forward to contributing to this exciting project!

[zfanelle]

Hi all,

I am Zack. I am a Cassandra Engineer at Comcast. I graduated Villanova University with a degree in CS, and I am working on my Masters in CIS in Database Management and Business Intelligence.

I look forward to contributing to the database backend with the engineers here. Neo4j has a very interesting data model and architecture.

• No SQL database architectures and management (Cassandra and MongoDB)
• Config Management (Ansible)
• Coding in Python