Bahar Alipanahi

Bahar Alipanahi is a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at Exact Sciences since November 2024, with prior roles at Delfi Diagnostics as a Staff and Senior Bioinformatics Scientist from April 2022 to October 2024, and at Bionano Genomics, Inc., serving as a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist from May 2020 to April 2022. Alipanahi began a career in bioinformatics at the University of Florida as a Research Assistant from August 2016 to May 2020, and completed an internship at Bionano Genomics, Inc. in early 2019. Alipanahi holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science from the University of Florida (2016-2020), with previous doctoral studies at Colorado State University (2015-2016) and advanced degrees in Mathematics from Shahid Beheshti University, including a Master’s Degree (2011-2013) and a Bachelor's Degree (2007-2011). Alipanahi's research included designing and benchmarking a long SV caller for cancer genomes using De Bruijn graphs.