Samiei, Ahmad
Ahmad Samiei is a software engineer with extensive experience in distributed computing and bioinformatic analysis of genomic data. After earning his MS in Computer Science from the University of Bonn in 2014, Ahmad was involved in developing and maintaining distributed data mining research projects. In 2020, Ahmad joined the Division of Pulmonary Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital as a Bioinformatician II, where he developed various pipelines and completed multiple projects involving, but not limited to, variant calling, quality control, Whole-Exome Sequencing data analyses, and VEP annotation on both in-house cohorts and large-scale biobanks such as the UK Biobank and the All of Us Research Program. His projects were primarily developed on local UNIX-based HPC systems and cloud platforms such as AWS (via the DNAnexus platform) and Google Cloud. Ahmad also generates expression Quantitative Trait Loci (eQTL) datasets and perform genetic colocalization analyses to identify causal genes associated with lung disorders, and as part of this work, he extended JLIM v2.5, a colocalization analysis R package available on GitHub. Additionally, Ahmad has contributed to single-cell RNA-seq workflows and network-based pathway analysis.
Ahmad joined the Center for Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular Sciences (CICS) in 2025, where he focuses on multiomics data analysis.