Kieran O'Neill

Kieran O'Neill is a Bioinformatics Staff Scientist and Process Development Coordinator at BC Cancer, where responsibilities include developing analysis methods for new sequencing technologies and translating them into production workflows since October 2008. Prior experience includes a bioinformatics postdoctoral fellowship in Dr. Aly Karsan's lab at the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, focusing on integrating high-throughput sequencing methods into molecular biology research, and a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of British Columbia, with research centered on computational statistical techniques for leukemia diagnosis. Kieran has also worked as a Scientific Technical Advisor for Twentieth Century Fox, a Teaching Assistant at the University of British Columbia, a Software Developer at ReportLab, and a Student Trainee at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. Education includes a BSc, BSc (Hons), MSc in Computer Science, and PhD from the University of British Columbia and the University of KwaZulu-Natal.