# Dan A. Anderson

> Senior Software Engineer at BigHat Biosciences

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/danaanderson

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ BigHat Biosciences
Jan 2024 – Present

### Data Scientist @ BigHat Biosciences
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024

### Biological Engineering Data Lab Mentor @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
- Piloted and guided the development of a data-science-focused peer coaching program which has now provided over 120 hours of support to 40 different members of the MIT life science community
- Hosted one-on-one mentoring sessions for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers applying Python in their research workflows and coursework

### Biological Engineering PhD Candidate (Voigt Lab) @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021
- Developed a novel bacterial transcription control method using competing dCas9 species
- Engineered, characterized, and modeled an in vivo, dual-selection system capable of one-pot screening of up to 10^9 constrained peptides, resulting in new insights for cell-based selection methods
- Utilized insights from ODE modeling and NGS data to identify a lead compound with 100-fold increased affinity for SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein from a massively parallel screen
- Created an automated Python-based pipeline for MS/MS data processing in support of a post-doc’s workflow, which has been used for the structural annotation of 30 newly-isolated, modified peptides

### Teaching Assistant @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
- Guided undergraduate students through the development and implementation of independent mammalian synthetic biology projects

### Research Intern @ Amgen
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
- Conducted a pilot study adapting GapNet, a Tensorflow-based CNN network, to predict adverse drug reactions from high-content microscopy data of drug-treated cell lines
- Used a local computational cluster to do training, hyperparameter optimization, and model evaluations

### Undergraduate Research Assistant -- Arkin Lab @ UC Berkeley Bioengineering Department
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Berkeley, California
- Applied control theory paradigms and MATLAB modeling to design and propose genetic circuits topologies that can achieve analog-feedback control in E. coli

### Undergraduate Tutor -- Biophysical Chemistry @ UC Berkeley Bioengineering Department
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Berkeley, CA
- Head Tutor (Fall 2015): Managed scheduling for 10-person tutoring team and acted as the main interface between tutors and the professor
- Lead weekly tutor sessions for a 220-student, upper-division biophysical chemistry course
- Independently authored and recorded video lectures covering biophysical chemistry topics; 5 videos currently have over 14,000 total views (see projects).

### Teaching Assistant for edX Principles of Synthetic Biology @ UC Berkeley Bioengineering Department
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
- Developed curriculum for and oversaw the inaugural offering of the Principles of Synthetic Biology online course; over 12,000 students attended this first offering of the course

### Amgen Scholar -- Niles Lab @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bioengineering Department
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Utilized diverse cloning methods used to construct inducible CRISPR/Cas9 systems for use in Plasmodium falciparum enabling high-throughput genomic studies
- Integrated in-house FileMaker strain database with Benchling, a cloud-based database

### Maxwell Scholar in Molecular Biology @ Santa Barbara City College
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Santa Barbara, CA
- Developed and validated DNA barcoding protocols for use in the Molecular Biology laboratory course
- Developed economic in-house production methods for Taq polymerase for use in teaching laboratories


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Biological Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### Bachelor’s Degree in Molecular & Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley

### Transfer in Biological Sciences
Santa Barbara City College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dantheanderson
- Website: http://dantheand.github.io/

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Last updated: 2026-04-01