Aedin Culhane
Head Of Node at Bioconductor
Limerick, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolAedin Culhane is a computational genomics leader with 11 years of professional experience driving digital oncology and cancer data science initiatives across academia and national infrastructure. Based in Limerick, he directs the Limerick Digital Cancer Research Centre, serves as Professor of Cancer Genomics at the University of Limerick, and recently became Head of Node for ELIXIR Ireland while co-founding OHDSI-Ireland to advance interoperable health data. His career blends deep research at institutions like Harvard, Dana-Farber and EMBL-EBI with practical open-science stewardship—co-chairing Bioconductor community governance and launching programmatic R/Bioconductor meetups. He is known for translating multivariate genomics methods into widely used tools (e.g., the made4 Bioconductor package) and for building cross-border cancer informatics programmes across the island of Ireland.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
PhD (BBSRC CASE program with Pfizer (Parke Davis)), PhD (BBSRC CASE program with Pfizer (Parke Davis)) at The University of ManchesterBSc, BSc at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteBSc, BSc at University of Limerick
Github Skills (46)
bioconductor10
decomposition9
pca8
dimensionality-reduction8
cancer-genomics7
biology7
clinical-trials7
bioinformatics7
genomics7
orange6
factorization6
twine5
batch5
data-model5
ssa5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
aedin/Frontiers_Supplement
Dec 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 5 months
aedin/bioconductor.org
Jan 2021 - Feb 2023
Website for bioconductor.org
Contributions:3 PRs, 35 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years
bioconductor
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