Anne Carpenter
Institute Scientist And Imaging Platform Senior Director
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnne Carpenter is an internationally recognized scientific leader who blends 20 years of hands-on biology with AI-driven image analysis to accelerate discovery of disease causes and cures. As Senior Director of the Imaging Platform at the Broad Institute she leads a multidisciplinary team developing open-source software and deep learning methods to extract rich information from high-throughput microscopy. She invented CellProfiler and the Cell Painting assay—tools widely adopted across pharma and foundational to startups like Recursion—while continuing to improve CellProfiler documentation and usability as an active open-source contributor. A proven builder of collaborative public–private consortia and advisory boards, she brings rare domain intuition in systems biology paired with disciplined project stewardship and a knack for turning complex assays into scalable datasets.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Biology, B.S., Biology at Purdue UniversityPh.D., Cell Biology, Ph.D., Cell Biology at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBiology, Biology at Wheaton College
read, write, and speak some french, English
Github Skills (4)
cellprofiler10
documentation10
technical-writing10
image-analysis9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
CellProfiler/CellProfiler
Aug 2016 - Jun 2020
An open-source application for biological image analysis
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:139 commits, 126 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Anne's contributions primarily focus on updating and clarifying documentation for the CellProfiler image analysis software. The commits involve extensive edits to help files and documentation, including descriptions of various modules, settings, and functionalities. The user also addressed specific issues and clarified user-facing content within the documentation, improving the overall usability and understanding of the software.
image-analysis
AnneCarpenter/CellProfiler
Jun 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:134 pushes, 121 branches, 1 comment in 5 months
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