My name is Cindy Yeh and I am a computational biologist at GigaGen, Inc.

• 😄 Pronouns: she/her
• 🦂 Background: I grew up in New Mexico.
• 🌲 Training: As an undergraduate at NMSU, I studied muscle degeneration and transdifferentiation in the weakly electric fish Sternopygus macrurus. I then spent an amazing 6 years in Seattle obtaining my PhD in Genome Sciences at the University of Washington where I studied natural allelic variation in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
• 🧬 Profession: I previously worked at Ultima Genomics as a scientist where I developed assays and analysis pipelines for Ultima's emerging iteration of short-read sequencers. This was a hybrid wet/dry lab role, but I shifted to a fully computational role when I started my position at GigaGen. I sometimes miss wet lab but there's so much to learn in computational biology!
• 🔭 Interests: I love learning about yeast genomics, evolution, and neat bioinformatics tricks
• 🌱 What I'm learning now: I’m currently learning about LLMs and how to create Shiny apps. Hopefully I can make my toy app available on my repo here!
• 👯 Fun fact: I worked alongside the godfather of tie dye, Paul Kenney. He's a clever chemist!