Chris Fong
Bioinformatics Software Engineer @Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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WORK HISTORY
Bioinformatics Software Engineer @Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY, US
Directed development of MSK-CHORD (Nature, 2024), a harmonized dataset of patients linking structured, genomic, and NLP-extracted clinical data; integrated into MSK’s cBioPortal for real-time clinical use.Designed and deployed NLP and transformer pipelines to extract cancer progression, treatment response, and biomarkers from notes and reports, achieving precision/recall >0.9.Mentored engineers, interns, and postdocs on NLP pipelines, survival modeling, and reproducible workflows; led institutional workshops and training sessions.Co-investigator on an NIH U54 grant; presented research at AACR and other national conferences.Pioneered integration of wearable and physiological stress data (Apple HealthKit, allostatic load) into predictive models of cancer outcomes.
EDUCATION
California State University-Sacramento
B.S., Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Physics minor.
Columbia University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biomedical Engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT CHRIS FONG
Data science leader with 10+ years in healthcare and oncology data science. PhD in Biomedical Engineering with expertise in NLP, time-series, and multimodal integration of clinical, genomic, and wearable data. Co–first author in Nature and Cell, with experience directing NIH projects, mentoring, and delivering scalable AI/ML solutions.
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