Getiria Onsongo

Getiria is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Macalester College. Prior to joining Macalester, he was an Informatics Analyst at the Minnesota Supercomputing institute where he helped develop cutting edge genomics and proteomics tools and software. While there, he developed genetic testing software for a diagnostics lab which he later extended to use machine learning and Hadoop to improve accuracy and scalability. He is currently working on techniques that support data driven plant breeding. Some of the work he has done in this area includes developing software to identify and correct errors in plant breeding data. Getiria brings extensive experience developing software using cutting edge techniques. He teaches computational biology, advanced databases, computer systems, and introductory computer science courses at Macalester College.