Stuart Davidson

Stuart Davidson has a long history of working in the software and computational biology fields. Stuart began their career in 1995 as a consultant for KLA Instruments Corporation, where they developed device control software for a scanning electron microscope. Stuart then worked as a consultant for Johnson-Grace Company, where they ported their proprietary image compression library from Windows to Mac OS. In 1996, they became a Senior Software Architect for Sonic Solutions, where they were the Technical Lead for the development of their DVD formatting engine.

In 2003, Davidson joined the Joint Genome Institute as a Software Developer. Stuart then moved to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2005, where they developed theory and algorithms for the analysis of ChIP-seq and SELEX data sets. In 2009, they became an Engineer, Science for 23andMe, where they developed algorithms and software for finding all loci identical by descent over all pairs of individuals in a large set of Illumina SNP-chip genotypes.

In 2010, Davidson joined Ion Torrent by Life Technologies as an Engineer, where they developed algorithms and software for core signal processing and primary data analysis of Ion Torrent PGM and Proton DNA sequencers. Stuart then moved to Eve Biomedical, Inc. in 2013, where they performed statistical analyses of data from a novel single-molecule DNA sequencer, created a model of the statistical mechanics of the action of RNA polymerase on DNA, and developed image analysis algorithms to track motion of nano-scale beads. Finally, they became the Senior Director of Software and Computational Biology at Quantapore Inc. in 2014.

Stuart Davidson received their B.A. in Mathematics from UC Santa Barbara in 1983 and their M.A. in Mathematics from University of California, Berkeley in 1989.