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Stephen J Bush, PhD

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Senior Director at Tempus AI
📍 Greater Chicago Area, United States

Stephen J. Bush is the Senior Director of Bioinformatics at Tempus AI, where he leads the development of scalable, AI-powered platforms for oncology and precision medicine. An alumnus of UNC Chapel Hill and Baylor University, he is described by colleagues as a "trusted and effective leader" who excels at uniting science and people.

Beyond his technical work, Stephen values the human side of leadership, emphasizing empathy, emotional intelligence, and a collaborative spirit built on respect. He has an interest in the principles of good science, including the importance of questioning assumptions to drive discovery.

He architected cloud-native pipelines that successfully reduced compute costs by over 20% and storage costs by 30%.

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Experience
15 Years
Current Role
Senior Director
Job Level
Senior
Location
Greater Chicago Area, United States
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AI in Precision Medicine
His career focuses on architecting and leading initiatives using AI-powered platforms to advance oncology, immunology, and precision medicine.
Bioinformatics Architecture
He specializes in designing and building scalable, cloud-native bioinformatics pipelines and platforms, migrating systems from AWS to GCP to enhance performance and reduce costs.
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Career

Work history

2-2024
Senior Director
Tempus AI
2-2020 - 2-2024
Director of Bioinformatics
Tempus AI
6-2016 - 2-2020
Principal Scientist in Bioinformatics
Tempus AI
8-2015 - 5-2016
Adjunct Professor
Richland College
2-2010 - 2-2016
Contract Editor
AJE - American Journal Experts
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Education
2008 - 2014
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2006 - 2008
MS
Baylor University
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