Soroor Hediyeh-Zadeh is a Research Assitant at the Bioinformatics Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.

She graduated from The University of Melbourne with a Bachelor's degree in Science, majoring in Mathematics and Statistics. She started her research career in breast cancer systems biology as an undergraduate research student with Melissa Davis in 2014, and has been working as a RA since then. She is the author of OPPAR Bioconductor package, and an organiser of R-Ladies Melbourne group. She is interested in computational biology, R statistical programming language and reproducible research.