Ahmed Hasan

Ahmed Hasan, PhD, is a Bioinformatics Scientist at Bridge Informatics, with prior experience as an R&D Engineer at BenchSci, where contributions included the development of NLP-based data pipelines for biological information extraction using technologies such as Python and Google Cloud Platform. Ahmed's academic background includes a PhD from the University of Toronto, focusing on genomics and population genetics, where research encompassed topics like mutation rate variation and recombination rates. As a Graduate Teaching Assistant and Course Developer, Ahmed created and delivered courses on genomics and quantitative methods in R, enhancing students' computational literacy. Additional roles included leadership in data science education at STEM Fellowship and research on fungal biodiversity at Sporometrics.