Donavan Cheng, VP of Informatics leads our Advanced Analytics, Application Delivery, and IT Operations departments at Ambry Genetics. He graduated with a PhD, Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. As VP of Informatics, he leads a team of bioinformaticians, IT development engineers and systems engineers, to innovate, architect and develop pipelines and applications for Ambry’s product portfolio. Prior to joining Ambry, Donavan worked at Guardant Health where he led bioinformatics and software development efforts for minimal residual disease; and Illumina where he was responsible for product management in Population Genomics/Genetic Health, as well as the BaseSpace Suite of SaaS/PaaS products. Donavan specializes in bioinformatics workflows for identification targets and biomarkers from high-dimensional molecular profiling data, as well as analytical validation of NGS-based molecular diagnostics.