Biography
Welcome to my personal webpage! I am a Senior Bioinformatics Engineer at AncestryDNA.
I am trained in genomic data science and scientific computing. I completed a postdoctoral stint at the UCSF School of Medicine and a Data Science Fellowship at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science. I completed my dissertation at UCLA under Kenneth Lange.
My mathematical research interests span numerical optimization, scientific computing, and high-dimensional statistics. I am also deeply interested in genomic data science, bioinformatics, statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology, and methods for admixed populations.
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- Genomic Data Science
- Bioinformatics
- Research Computing
- Statistical Genetics
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PhD in Biomathematics, 2016
University of California, Los Angeles
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MS in Biomathematics, 2012
University of California, Los Angeles
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BS in Mathematics, 2010
The University of Arizona
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BA in Linguistics, 2010
The University of Arizona
Skills
Experience
Responsibilities include:
- Improved scalability, efficiency, and reproduciblity of genetic ancestry estimation
- Optimized scalability and cost‐efficiency of cloud research computing infrastructure for population genetic analyses
Responsibilities included:
- Designed and implemented cloud‐enabled bioinformatics pipelines for critical company‐wide sequencing data processing and analysis
- Maintained scalable cloud research computing infrastructure for celltherapy R&D needs
- Executed statistical analyses of high‐dimensional single‐cell data for cancer immunotherapy assay development
Responsibilities included:
- Cloud processing and analysis of genomic sequencing data
- End-to-end analysis of raw data to scientific insight for gene expression studies
- Management of collaborations with bioinformatics CROs
Contact
- klkeys@g.ucla.edu