Abdulrahman Alhomayany

After KAUST Academy

Abdulrahman was a teaching assistant for the 2025 Introduction to Bioinformatics course at KAUST Academy. As of October 2026, Abdulrahman is a data science student at Saudi Electronic University with an interest in bioinformatics and biomedical research.

Summer project

Bioinformatics Specialization · Cohort 2024

ThunderPack for EHR Ingestion

This project explores an alternative method for Electronic Health Record (EHR) ingestion using ThunderPack, as compared to the current approach employed by the JEDI pipeline at the Broad Institute. The results were promising: ThunderPack significantly reduced size on disk for the ingested dataset as well as ingestion time. Furthermore, improved read speed metrics were measured for text and tabular data, the two primary modalities that JEDI works with.

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