Jeremy Leipzig, PhD

Jeremy Leipzig, PhD

Bioinformatics engineer & Technical PM. Reproducible research, genomics, pipelines, and metadata. Architect and product leader for early stage therapeutic, diagnostic, and SaaS startups.

Complete curriculum vitae including education, professional experience, publications, presentations, and achievements in bioinformatics and computational biology.

Education

2021

PhD in Information Science

Drexel University

Specialized in computational biology, reproducible research, and bioinformatics methodology

2003

Master of Computer Science

North Carolina State University

Focus on algorithms, data structures, and software engineering

1997

Bachelor of Science in Biology

Wake Forest University

Pre-medical track with research experience in neuropharmacology

Professional Experience

08/2022 - Present

Product Manager

TileDB

Manage the population genomics product line, including product development, sales demos, customer support, and marketing.

09/2020 - 07/2022

Content Lead

Truwl

Led onboarding of tools, workflows, and high-impact analyses into the Truwl platform.

09/2017 - 11/2019

Bioinformatics Engineer

Panorama Medicine

Developed cloud-based pipelines and analysis for drug repositioning efforts. First employee.

11/2010 - 06/2017

Senior Data Integration Analyst & GRIN Informatics Lead

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)

Led bioinformatics core operations and developed tools for genomic variant analysis.

Selected Publications

40+ peer-reviewed publications with an h-index of 30

The role of metadata in reproducible computational research

Cell Patterns, 2021

Hierarchy‐guided neural network for species classification

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2021

Tests of Robustness in Peer Review

Drexel University, 2021

Biodiversity Image Quality Metadata Augments Convolutional Neural Network Classification of Fish Species†

Research Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research, 2020

Computational Pipelines and Workflows in Bioinformatics

Reference Module in Life Sciences, Elsevier, 2018

Conference Presentations

Drexel-CODATA FAIR-RRDM Workshop

Drexel-CODATA FAIR-RRDM Workshop, 2019

CYTO2018

CYTO2018, 2018

2016 MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference

MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference, 2016

Teaching Experience

Introduction to Data Science (INFO103)

Drexel University College of Computing and Informatics, 2018

Programming for Biology

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2007

Programming for Biology

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2007

Key Achievements

  • Led four diagnostic, therapeutic and SaaS startups in defining their bioinformatic product strategy
  • Founded PhillyR user group and top-20 contributor to biostars.org bioinformatics Q&A community
  • Author of O'Reilly book 'Data Mashups in R' and multiple bioinformatics software tools
  • Expert in developing cloud-based pipelines for genomics, transcriptomics, and clinical applications
  • Proven track record in scaling bioinformatics workflows from research prototypes to production systems