Aaron Brooks

About Aaron Brooks

Scientific leader building AI-native tools that transform how science gets done.A few outcomes- Quickly designed, built, shipped and iterated on multiple, purpose-built, enterprise-scale agentic systems (Generate:Biomedicines)- Founded an innovative team that streamlined DNA asset management at scale and across multiple organisms. Identified DNA yielding ~30-fold performance improvements (Ginkgo Bioworks)- Developed software packages and visualization tools to identify \"hits\" in high-throughput CRISPR-based gene editing experiments (Inscripta)- Harnessed synthetic and evolutionary biology to understand how genome organization shapes its function (Brooks and Hughes et al. Science)- Architected robust data processing pipelines for processing and managing large-scale, high-throughput, multi-omic biological data (EMBL)- Developed ensemble-learning approaches to infer biological mechanisms from -omic scale data (Brooks and Reiss et al. MSB)

Experience

1. Principal Scientist, Applied Ai

   Generate:Biomedicines

   Nov 2024 — Present

   Rapidly engineering and shipping agentic products that reshape scientific workflows and unlock innovation at scale.

Education

• The University of New Mexico

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Biochemistry

  2002 — 2007

• The University of New Mexico

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science and Government

  2002 — 2007

• University of Washington

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology

Skills

• Microbiology
• Evolutionary Biology
• Cell
• R
• Synthetic Biology
• Complexity Theory
• Mathematical Modeling
• Machine Learning
• Data Analysis
• Molecular Biology
• Network Science
• Genomics
• Python
• Statistical Data Analysis
• Big Data
• Systems Biology
• Bioenergy
• Systems Theory