• Developed machine learning pipeline for predicting immunotherapy response using multi-modal patient data, improving prediction accuracy by 35% over existing methods • Led analysis of 500+ patient tumor samples using single-cell RNA-seq, identifying novel T-cell exhaustion signatures that informed 3 clinical trial designs • Built automated quality control system for genomic data processing, reducing manual review time from 40 hours to 2 hours per study • Collaborated with 8 cross-functional teams to integrate computational findings into drug development decisions, contributing to 2 IND applications • Mentored 3 junior bioinformaticians and established best practices for reproducible research workflows
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Bioinformatics Analyst
June 2019 - August 2021
• Analyzed whole-genome sequencing data from 2,000+ rare disease patients using GATK pipeline, identifying causal variants in 45% of cases • Developed R Shiny application for interactive variant interpretation, enabling clinical geneticists to review cases 60% faster • Implemented parallelized variant calling workflow using Cromwell/WDL, reducing processing time from 72 hours to 8 hours per sample • Contributed to Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) pan-cancer analysis, processing 10TB+ of multi-omics data across 33 cancer types • Published 4 first-author papers on computational methods for rare variant interpretation
UCSF Computational Biology Lab
Graduate Research Assistant
September 2014 - May 2019
• Designed deep learning architecture for drug-target interaction prediction, achieving 0.92 AUC on independent test sets • Integrated chemical structure data with protein sequence features using graph neural networks, improving binding affinity predictions by 28% • Analyzed RNA-seq data from 300+ cancer cell lines treated with experimental compounds, identifying synergistic drug combinations • Created automated pipeline for processing ChIP-seq data, standardizing analysis across 15+ collaborative projects • Presented research findings at 6 international conferences, winning 2 best poster awards
Publications
Graph Neural Networks for Predicting Drug-Target Interactions in Oncology Applications
Nature Biotechnology
2023
Martinez, O., Chen, L., Rodriguez, M., et al. (2023). Nature Biotechnology, 41(8), 1123-1135. [Contributed: Designed GNN architecture, performed computational validation]
Single-Cell Analysis Reveals Novel Immune Escape Mechanisms in Melanoma
Cell
2022
Thompson, K., Martinez, O., Park, S., et al. (2022). Cell, 185(12), 2234-2248. [Contributed: Developed clustering algorithms, performed pathway enrichment analysis]
Automated Quality Control Framework for Large-Scale Genomic Studies
Bioinformatics
2022
Martinez, O., Kumar, A., Williams, J. (2022). Bioinformatics, 38(15), 3821-3829. [First author: Designed QC pipeline, implemented software package]
Machine Learning Approaches for Rare Variant Interpretation in Clinical Genomics
American Journal of Human Genetics
2021
Lee, H., Martinez, O., Davis, R., et al. (2021). American Journal of Human Genetics, 108(7), 1287-1301. [Contributed: Developed ML models, performed statistical analysis]
Awards and Honors
Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award
International Society for Computational Biology
2023
"For innovative contributions to drug discovery through computational genomics"
Best Paper Award
RECOMB Conference on Computational Biology
2022
"Graph Neural Networks for Drug-Target Interaction Prediction"
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
National Science Foundation
2015-2018
$138,000 fellowship for doctoral research in computational biology
First Place, Precision Medicine Hackathon
Stanford Medicine
2021
Developed AI model for predicting treatment response using electronic health records
Young Investigator Travel Award
American Society of Human Genetics
2020
Research Projects
Cancer Immunotherapy Response Prediction Platform
2022-Present
• Integrated multi-omics data (WES, RNA-seq, flow cytometry) from 800+ patients across 5 clinical trials • Developed ensemble machine learning model combining gradient boosting and neural networks • Achieved 78% accuracy in predicting checkpoint inhibitor response, 15% improvement over clinical markers alone
Rare Disease Variant Interpretation Pipeline
2020-2021
• Built comprehensive annotation pipeline integrating 20+ databases (ClinVar, gnomAD, OMIM, etc.) • Implemented machine learning classifier for pathogenicity prediction using 150+ genomic features • Deployed system processing 500+ cases monthly for clinical genetics teams
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