Zack Mudge

Zack Mudge is a Bioinformatics Fellow at the Washington State Department of Health, where they continue to contribute to public health through bioinformatics research. They previously held the role of Software Developer at InductiveHealth Informatics, leading the development of a web app in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mudge has also been an APHL-CDC Public Health Laboratory Fellow, co-developing a widely-used Nextflow pipeline for fungal genome analysis. They earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a Master of Science in Bioinformatics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where they gained extensive research experience in both their undergraduate and graduate studies.