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Kyle Hernandez, Ph.D.
Director of Bioinformatics
Empowering cross-functional teams to provide computational solutions that improve patient outcomes and lives.
Liquid biopsies
CNS cancers
Large-scale bioinformatics and biomedical data science cloud platforms
Evolutionary quantitative/statistical genetics
Experience
Director of Bioinformatics
Belay Diagnostics, LLC, Chicago, IL.
2023-Present
Research Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences Division, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2020-2023
Manager of Bioinformatics - PlanX
Center for Translational Data Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2020-2023
Manager of Bioinformatics
Center for Research Informatics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2018-2020
Research Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences Division, Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2017-2020
Bioinformatician
Center for Research Informatics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2013-2017
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow
The University of Texas, Austin, TX
2011-2013
Education
Ph.D., Ecology, Evolution, and Population Biology
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2005-2011
B.S., Biology
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
2002-2005
Skills
Bioinformatics
WXS, WGS, RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, microarrays, de novo assemblies
Advanced Programming
Python, Perl, R
Intermediate Programming
C++, D, Scala, JavaScript, SAS
Statistics
GLMMs, REML parameter estimation, multivariant models
Environments
UNIX/Linux, HPC, AWS EC2, S3, Docker
Database
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB
Selected Projects
Liquid biopsy interlaboratory variability and the utility of contrived material
Large-scale biomedical data science platforms
data modeling and analysis subgroup
developed various annotation and filtration workflows; MAF spec; automation
genomic harmonization team