Tyrone Lee is a senior software engineer with a strong background in molecular and computational biology. He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from the Reed College, and with a Master’s degree in Bioinformatics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He then worked in several different roles at the MIT McGovern Brain Institute, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the MIT Lincoln Lab, where he developed scientific software tools ranging from deep learning libraries to graphical interfaces for geo-spatial imaging data. His interests are in machine learning, artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and scientific software development.
Tyrone joined the Core for Computational Biomedicine in 2022 and has since made several contributions to the HMS software stack on the HPC O2 system, most notably the Alphafold2 implementation which allows researchers to generate accurate structural predictions for proteins. He also helps maintaining the Research Data Visualization Platform (RDVP), powered by Posit Connect, providing a space for researchers to create, host, and share interactive data visualization apps. He continues to work closely with scientists from research labs around the Quad and implements scalable solutions for the exploration and analysis of experimental high-throughput data.