Alboukadel Kassambara
Founder at Helomnix
Montpellier, Occitania, France
Summary
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Top SchoolAlboukadel Kassambara is a founder and computational biologist with 11 years of experience building integrative multi-omics architectures for hematologic oncology, now leading Helomnix to create disease "digital twin" maps for AML and multiple myeloma. He combines a PhD in Cancer Biology & Bioinformatics with hands-on bioinformatics leadership across industry and academic labs, designing reproducible systems that translate complex genomics, single-cell, proteomics and immune profiling data into clinically actionable state-based representations. At Veracyte and HalioDx he defined analytical strategies that supported translational biomarker programs and regulatory-aligned assay development, bridging pathology, clinical teams and computational research. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed core functionality to the widely used survminer survival-analysis visualization package, reflecting both statistical rigor and practical tooling skills. Based in Montpellier, he focuses on infrastructure-grade, reusable disease models rather than black-box prediction, enabling mechanistic hypothesis testing and target prioritization across programs.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy Cancer Biology & Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy Cancer Biology & Bioinformatics at University of MontpellierMaster's degree Cell Biology, Master's degree Cell Biology at Université Grenoble Alpes
Github Skills (6)
data-visualizations10
survival-analysis10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
ggplot10
r10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kassambara/survminer
Jan 2016 - Nov 2022
Survival Analysis and Visualization
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 2 reviews, 778 commits in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Alboukadel primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the "survminer" package, which focuses on survival analysis and visualization. Their commits demonstrate the addition of new arguments for customizing plots, modification of existing functions like ggsurvplot, and improvements to handling different data structures for the survival analysis. These changes focused on the core functionality of the package.
survival-analysissurvivaldata-visualizationvisualization
kassambara/ggcorrplot
Jan 2016 - Nov 2022
Visualization of a correlation matrix using ggplot2
Contributions:5 releases, 64 commits, 9 PRs in 6 years 11 months
ggplot2correlation-matrixcorrelationmatrixdata-visualization
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