Damon May
MS, PhD ’18

About Damon May

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Job title: Principal Computational Biologist

Degrees: MS, PhD ’18

Career stage: Mid-career

State of practice: Seattle, WA

Current practice settings: Research – industry

Lived career experiences/transitions:

  • Changing specialty
  • Starting a family while maintaining a full-time practice
  • Leaving a practice
  • Non-clinical careers
  • Work/Life Balance

Graduation year from the UW School of Medicine: 2018

Specialty/subspecialty: Computational Immunology

Research or other professional interests: data science, machine learning, computational biology, immunology

Damon’s Bio: After a BS in computer science at Yale, I did software development at Oracle for 7 years, while getting a nighttime MS in CS at the University of Washington. I did computational proteomics at Fred Hutch for 9 years before returning to school for a UW PhD in Genome Sciences. I’ve spent the last 7 years applying ML to T-cell repertoires at Adaptive Biotechnologies, and managing teams of computational biologists. I’m currently a Principal Computational Biologist.

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