Conrad Bessant
Professor Of Bioinformatics
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorConrad Bessant is a seasoned bioinformatics professor and data scientist specializing in big data challenges in the life sciences. Based in London, he combines academic leadership with industry-building experience, directing the QMUL Centre for Computational Biology and serving as Professor of Bioinformatics at Queen Mary, University of London since 2013, while co-founding Mebomine in 2019. His work spans proteome informatics, data integration, machine learning, knowledge graphs, and robust software development, with a track record of turning complex biological data into actionable insights. He has bridged academia and applied research through roles at The Alan Turing Institute as a Research Fellow and driving multi-year programs in computational biology. A relentless problem-solver who enjoys building systems that hold up in real-world life-science workloads, Conrad combines deep theoretical grounding with hands-on software delivery.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
SpanishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
conradbessant/webintro
Jan 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
bezzlab/intercalc
Feb 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 9 pushes in 8 months
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