Ali Heidari
Graduate Research Assistant
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolAli Heidari is a data-focused bioinformatics researcher and engineer with eight years of experience bridging machine learning, data engineering, and agricultural genomics. Currently a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Guelph pursuing a PhD in Bioinformatics, he applies statistical learning and image-processing pipelines to accelerate plant breeding and trait discovery. Prior roles include building firmware and transaction systems for banking devices and developing semi-automated MATLAB imaging tools and an AllInOne R package for greenhouse phenotyping, reflecting a rare mix of low-level systems and domain-specific data science. He has taught bioinformatics and programming at multiple institutions, mentoring students and translating complex methods into practical classroom and field workflows. Known for pragmatic solutions—detecting and imputing data anomalies and customizing analytics tools for breeders—he combines academic rigor with hands-on deployment experience in both industry and research settings. Based in Nuremberg, Germany, he brings a global perspective to agricultural genomics informed by applied engineering and teaching.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of |Science, Bioinformatics, Master of |Science, Bioinformatics at University of Science and Cultureundergraduate , Computer Software Engineering, undergraduate , Computer Software Engineering at Technical and Vocational UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at University of Guelph
Github Skills (13)
agriculture9
preprocessing9
nltk7
nlp7
shiny-apps6
machine-learning6
python6
natural-language-processing6
shiny4
shinydashboard3
r3
bootstrap2
fomantic-ui1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MohsenYN/AllInOne
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Make Your Couch a Data Pre-Processing Center
Contributions:233 commits, 6 PRs, 81 pushes in 2 months
couchcenterdata-pre-processingpre-processingagriculture
alihdr/AllInOne
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Easily deal with messy datasets
Contributions:20 pushes in 2 months
datasetsdatasetdealmachine-learning
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