Summary
Axel Masquelin is an applied machine learning scientist and K00 postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School with a decade of experience building scalable AI for biomedical imaging and clinical translation. He holds a PhD in Bioengineering and has led projects that fuse GWAS and LDCT imaging, pretraining Vision Transformers with self-supervision on limited CT datasets to boost cancer detection sensitivity while preserving specificity. Comfortable working at the intersection of clinicians, experimentalists, and engineers, he designs models with real-world constraints in mind and emphasizes robust validation, interpretability, and subgroup generalizability. His work has improved downstream classification accuracy and prioritized nodule intervention decisions, and he has a track record of securing competitive NIH funding and translating wet-lab needs into automated ML solutions. Based in Boston, Axel combines deep technical expertise in multi-modal modeling and cloud ML pipelines with a pragmatic focus on ethical, clinically actionable AI.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Candidate), Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Candidate), Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at University of Vermont
Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University
English, French