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Aren Ewing

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Director of Bioinformatics at Illumina
📍 Carlsbad, California, United States

Aren Ewing is the Director of Bioinformatics at Illumina, where he leads the design and implementation of analysis pipelines for key data platforms. His extensive career includes leadership roles at Thermo Fisher Scientific and TerraVia, with deep expertise in DNA sequencing, oncology, and virology. He holds an MS from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

He is accountable for analysis applications deployed across Illuminas major platforms, including DRAGEN Bio-IT, BaseSpace Sequence Hub, and the TruSight Software Suite.

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Experience
22 Years
Current Role
Director of Bioinformatics
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Carlsbad, California, United States
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Bioinformatics Platforms
Leads the design and implementation of analysis pipelines across Illumina's major data platforms, including DRAGEN, BaseSpace, and Illumina Connected Analytics.
Multiomics & Proteomics
He has recently expressed excitement about the future of Multiomics and is actively involved in proteomics projects at Illumina, including hiring for his team.
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Career

Work history

9-2021
Director of Bioinformatics
Illumina
11-2017 - 8-2021
Associate Director of Bioinformatics
Thermo Fisher Scientific
2-2015 - 10-2017
Associate Director of Bioinformatics
TerraVia Holdings, Inc.
6-2013 - 1-2015
Bioinformatics Scientist - Genome Curation
TerraVia Holdings, Inc.
4-2012 - 6-2013
Bioinformatics Consultant
Vista Informatics
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Education
2003 - 2008
MS
University of Hawaii at Manoa
1998 - 2002
BS
University of California, Davis
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