Data scientist and computational biology expert Hamza Farooq is an award-winning scientist that has published over 30+ papers in high-impact journals on applied bioinformatics and machine learning in biology. He is a 10-year veteran in deploying scalable and performant software systems in research institutions. Before co-founding BioBox, Hamza was the lead bioinformatician at SickKids hospital and Brain Tumor Research Center computational core.

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Hamza holds a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering and a master's degree in laboratory medicine and bioinformatics from the University of Toronto.