Informatics

The Informatics group manages, builds systems to support, and performs analyses on the foundation’s complex and interrelated data assets. These assets include phenotypic and genomics data on human research subjects, and administrative data on scientific funding and scientific resources.

The group is organized into three teams, made up of individuals with backgrounds in software development, bioinformatics, computational biology, data analysis and product development. These teams work with external investigators and with other groups at the foundation, including the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative, neuroscience collaborations, grants administration, and the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Biology, Center for Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Core.

Bioinformatics The Bioinformatics team manages the computational analysis and distribution of genetic and digital health data across various Simons Foundation autism and neuroscience collaboration cohorts, including SPARK, the Simons Simplex Collection, Simons Searchlight, Research Match, the Autism Inpatient Collection and Autism BrainNet. The Bioinformatics team performs quality control... Learn More

Product Analytics The Product Analytics team collaborates with diverse groups, including scientists, study operations specialists, informatics specialists and engineers. Learn More

Software Engineering The Software Engineering team designs, builds and maintains innovative software systems that align with the foundation’s commitment to open science by supporting various initiatives and collaborations, including SPARK, Autism BrainNet, SFARI Base, Simons Searchlight, the SFARI Sleep Project and the Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain... Learn More

Leadership and Administration

Aaron Wong, Ph.D.

Vice President, Informatics

Aaron Wong was appointed vice president of Informatics at the Simons Foundation in May 2023, having served as interim vice president since the previous November. Prior to taking on his role in Informatics, Wong was a data scientist and project leader in the genomics group…

Jacob Sellman

Project Specialist

Jacob Sellman joined the Simons Foundation in May 2023 as a member of SFARI. In 2025, he moved to the role of Project Specialist with the Informatics team. Before joining the foundation, Sellman worked at Elevate as a project coordinator supporting foundation fundraising for nonprofit…

Contact

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