Mark J. Berger

About

I am a software engineer at Robinhood on the security team. Previously, I worked on the data science team at Color. My interests include a variety of topics at the intersection of software engineering, computer science, and biology.

Before I worked as a software engineer, I did a short stint in the Stanford PhD program where I published a few papers on rare genetic variation, gene regulation, and the heritability of complex traits. While I was lucky to work with excellent mentors and peers, I decided academia is not for me and left with a masters in March of 2019.


Experience

Robinhood (September 2020 - present)

Color Genomics (May 2019 - August 2020)

Stanford Computer Science PhD Program (Sept 2017 - March 2019)

Bejerano Laboratory, Stanford University (September 2016 - September 2017)

Curtis Laboratory, Stanford University (April 2016 - September 2016)

Facebook (June 2014 - September 2014)

Yahoo! Research - Latin America (April 2014 - June 2014)

Google Summer of Code Student (May 2013 - September 2013)


Education

M.S. in Computer Science, Stanford University (2019)
B.S. with honors in Computer Science, Stanford University (2016)

Coursework included: machine learning, natural language processing, deep learning for natural language processing, mining massive datasets, introduction to cryptography, compilers, programming languages, computational genomics, statistical and machine learning methods for genomics