Joel Rodriguez Medina
Bioinformatics, Algorithms, Data Analysis, Science, and Statistics
My name is Joel (pronounced /xo'el/) and I am passionate about leveraging computational tools and data to address complex biological challenges.
🌱 During my PhD, I explored how plants adapt their genomic expression in response to environmental changes.
🤖 In 2020, I was a Health Data Science fellow at Insight Data Science, where I developed SuppSmart, a Natural Language Processing (NLP) based recommendation engine. This system suggests dietary supplements based on user queries, utilizing a dataset I curated from various online sources. I built the application by training a word2vec model from the ground up. Explore the app here and the repository here
🫐 I subsequently joined Foodome/Naring Health, focusing on identifying natural compounds in plants that could potentially treat diseases through a Network Medicine approach. The company was later acquired by Viome.Inc.
🧪 I spent about two and a half years at Freenome , applying computational biology techniques to analyze cfDNA and contributing to the development of novel assays for early colorectal cancer (CRC) detection.
🧬 Recently, I transitioned to Natera , where I continue to leverage computational tools and data to drive innovations in personalized medicine, with a focus on liquid biopsies and early cancer detection.