Ilya Shlyakhter

Computational Scientist

Role
Senior Bioinformatics Engineer at GeneDx
Location
Cambridge, MA, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Ilya Shlyakhter

I am a computer scientist working on computational tools that enable new biological insights.My Ph.D. and initial post-graduate work were in formal system verification. I then retrained into bioinformatics, seeking to contribute to biomedical applications, and joined the Broad Institute. Topics of my work include assembling of human and pathogen genomes from high-throughput sequencing data, finding genetic variants subject to positive selection pressure, and simulating the spread of mutations through populations.

Experience

  1. Senior Bioinformatics Engineer

    GeneDx

    May 2025 — Present

Education

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Ph.D., Computer Science

    1999 — 2005

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    M.Eng., Computer Science

    1997 — 1999

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    B.S., Computer Science, Mathematics

    1993 — 1997

  • Stanford University

    Graduate Certificate, Bioinformatics

    2005 — 2006

Skills

  • Software Engineering
  • Algorithms
  • Software Development
  • Python
  • Algorithm Design
  • Java
  • R
  • Computational Biology
  • Genomics
  • High Performance Computing
  • Programming
  • C++
  • Systems Biology
  • Data Mining
  • Mathematical Modeling
  • Computer Science
  • Perl
  • Machine Learning
  • Scientific Computing
  • Bioinformatics

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