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Vahan Simonyan (born 1971) is the lead scientist for the Center of Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) where his team is developing computing environments that allow collaborative research using biomedical data with strict security protocols. Previously, he spent 12 years as a Senior Software Developer at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, where he contributed to the development of PubChem 3D and Conserved Domain Database. He received his PhD in Physics and Mathematics from Moscow State University in 1997 and completed post-doc training in Nanotechnology and Quantum Statistical Thermodynamics at the University of Pittsburgh in 2000. During his career, he has authored numerous book chapters and highly cited manuscripts.

Dr. Simonyan serves as an adjunct professor at the George Washington University, where he teaches and develops curriculum for biomedical big data informatics and biostatistics research and development courses. His team, in collaboration with the George Washington University, is developing a High-performance Integrated Virtual Environment (HIVE), which can allow users to compute and share biomedical big-data. The HIVE codebase was made available to the public on GitHub.

In 2016, Dr. Simonyan and others published the first BioCompute Object (BCO) paper discussing harmonization for bioinformatics communication where they introduced the new concept for bioinformatics harmonization. The BCO community is currently an international consortium of regulatory and research scientists from academia, industry, and government organizations.

In 2017, Dr. Simonyan co-lead a collaborative initiative between the FDA and IBM called Healthcare Data Exchange Framework (HDEF) which creates a framework for patient ownership of medical data using blockchain technology.