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Andrew G. Duncan

PhD Candidate | Cell & Systems Biology | University of Toronto

About Me

I am a final-year PhD candidate at the University of Toronto (supervised by Dr. Alan Moses and Dr. Jennifer Mitchell), bridging the gap between rigorous research and production-grade software engineering.

My doctoral research focuses on modeling genome regulation using large-scale machine learning. To decode complex biological relationships and overcome severe data sparsity, I develop domain-specific data augmentation strategies, apply advanced model interpretability techniques, and architect generative language models to synthesize novel regulatory sequences.

Prior to my PhD, I spent three years as a software developer at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), engineering robust computational pipelines and full-stack infrastructure. I hold a B.CS. in Bioinformatics (Honours) from the University of Waterloo.

I am currently seeking opportunities to apply my expertise in deep learning and scalable engineering to extract actionable, high-impact insights from complex datasets.

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