Logan Whitehouse
Data Scientist
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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SeniorLogan Whitehouse is a biotech-focused software leader and CTO/co-founder at Virnika, where he builds low-latency AI applications and steers product development for advanced human-AI interactions using multi-modal interfaces. With a PhD in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from UNC Chapel Hill (2019–2024) in Dan Schrider's lab and a background in deep learning for population genetics, he blends scientific rigor with pragmatic software delivery. He previously honed data science and genomics experience as an intern at Bayer Crop Sciences and as a researcher in computational biology, shaping scalable data-driven solutions. At UNC, he founded and led the Computational Biosciences Club, growing it into one of the country's largest graduate student organizations to train the next generation of bioinformatics talent. Based in Chapel Hill, NC, he has about eight years of experience spanning academia, biotech, and startup leadership, with a track record of turning cutting-edge research into production-ready tools. Logan is known for marrying research depth with product focus, building the systems that enable effective and scalable human-AI collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (46)
genetics10
convolutional-neural-networks10
sampling10
genomics10
population-genetics10
unc9
python8
neural-networks8
time-series8
bam7
assembly7
metagenomics7
atlas6
annotation6
notebook6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SchriderLab/Timesweeper
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Python package for detecting positive selective sweeps using time-series genomics sampling data.
Contributions:1 release, 616 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 4 months
pythongeneticsselectiveneural-networkspopulation-genetics
SchriderLab/timesweeper-experiments
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:69 commits, 10 pushes in 10 months
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