Bioinformatics

Datacast Episode 29: From Bioinformatics to Natural Language Processing with Leonard Apeltsin

Datacast Episode 29: From Bioinformatics to Natural Language Processing with Leonard Apeltsin

Dr. Leonard Apeltsin is a research fellow at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science. He holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics from UCSF and a BS in Biology and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Leonard was a Senior Data Scientist & Engineering Lead at Primer AI, a machine learning company that specializes in using advanced Natural Language Processing Techniques to analyze terabytes of unstructured text data. As a founding team-member, Leonard helped expand the Primer AI team from four employees to over 80 people. Outside of Data Science and ML, Leonard enjoys scuba diving, salsa dancing, and making short documentary films.

Datacast Episode 7: Building Open-Source R Packages with Thomas Lin Pedersen

Datacast Episode 7: Building Open-Source R Packages with Thomas Lin Pedersen

Thomas is a bioinformatician, turned software engineer, who enjoys developing tools for data scientists. His main interests are in the tools that bring the scientist closer to their data, whether it be through intuitive and powerful APIs or through visualization. He describes himself as a creative spirit who enjoys photography as well as generative art and graphic design, and he tends to try and combine this with his interest in programming whenever possible. Thomas lives just north of Copenhagen with his wife and two kids.