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Hi, I'm Owais Siddiqi

Data Scientist specialising in bioinformatics, machine learning, and clinical data analytics. MSc Biomedical Engineering · Imperial College London.

2+
Years in industry
MSc
Imperial College
1st
BEng, Queen Mary
3
Industry roles

About me

Where biology meets
data science

I'm a Bioinformatics-focused Data Scientist with a background in Biomedical Engineering. I build production-scale genomic analytics pipelines, deploy machine learning models for patient stratification, and translate complex molecular datasets into structured, decision-ready evidence.

I hold an MSc in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London and a First Class BEng from Queen Mary University of London. This site is where I write about the ideas and topics that shape how I think, from genomics to machine learning to medicine.

Physics & Maths

Multivariable calculus, linear algebra, and signal processing, the rigour behind every model I build.

Biology & Genomics

Living systems are noisy, dynamic, and deeply interconnected, precisely what makes data science on them so compelling.

Writing and research
Blog posts

The Blog

Exploring ideas at the boundary of disciplines

Biology and engineering seem worlds apart — yet their intersection is where the most exciting science happens. Bioinformatics and data science give me the tools to make sense of complex biological systems: finding patterns in genomic data, modelling disease progression, and translating raw molecular information into something meaningful.

The human genome contains billions of base pairs. A single RNA-seq experiment generates millions of reads. A clinical dataset can span thousands of patients across years of follow-up. Making sense of that data, rigorously and reproducibly, is both a technical challenge and a creative one.

This blog is where I explore those ideas, from the logic of machine learning pipelines to the biology they're trying to decode. I hope you find something here that sparks your curiosity.


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Hobbies

Programming

  • Python is my primary language — the backbone of modern data science and bioinformatics. Its readability and flexibility make it ideal for everything from rapid prototyping to production-scale pipelines.
  • The ecosystem is what makes it so powerful: Pandas and NumPy for data engineering, Scikit-learn and PyTorch for ML, and Nextflow for genomic workflows.
Video Games

  • Personally, I have a variety of different video game genres that I like to play. Solo games provide a beautiful, vast story combined by smooth game mechanics and a cleverly chosen score that only facilitates the immersiveness of a single player game (God Of War).
  • Multiplayer games on the other hand, require a more strategic and alert mind as you are not playing against NPCs (Non - player characters) but real people, who are making their own unpredictable decisions that you have to counter.
Blogging

  • Blogging is one of the most effective ways to build awareness about your subject interests, while providing relevant and useful content for your audience at the same time. I enjoy blogging as it grants me a platform to convey the topics I find interesting.
  • It also lets me share knowledge I have gained through research in various subjects and allows me to give my own opinion on them. Serendipitously, it indirectly diverts me to areas of science I never knew about and thus broadens my horizons on subjects I didn’t know existed in the first place.

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