Alden Conner
Science Officer at California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlden Conner is a science-oriented product and research leader with nine years of experience translating advanced microscopy and neuroscience research into impactful tools and programs. With a PhD from UC Berkeley, Alden has guided product development and customer-facing programs for imaging platforms, run a core imaging facility, and moved into research product strategy and tooling at The Alan Turing Institute before taking on a Science Officer role at CIRM. He combines hands-on experimental expertise in optogenetics and in vivo imaging with product management skills—training global sales/support teams and aligning R&D with customer needs. Based in Oakland, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor, practical lab leadership, and cross-disciplinary program building that helps bridge basic science and translational impact.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Molecular and Cell Biology, PhD Molecular and Cell Biology at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Arts Biology, Bachelor of Arts Biology at Williams College
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (26)
data-science10
machine-learning10
science10
image-processing9
computer-vision8
image-analysis8
open-science7
python7
management7
feature-extraction6
graphical-models5
artificial-intelligence4
open-source4
governance4
ai3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
aldenc/the-turing-way
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
Host repository for The Turing Way: a how to guide for reproducible data science
Contributions:5 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
how-to-guidesciencehostdata-sciencemachine-learning
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