Azim Amirabad
Principal Artificial Intelligence Scientist at Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAzim Amirabad is a Principal Artificial Intelligence Scientist in Cambridge, MA with nine years of experience developing ML and deep learning methods that bridge LLMs, multimodal models, and single-cell multi-omics to accelerate biological discovery. He has led integrative analyses across scRNA-seq, scATAC-seq, CITE-seq and imaging data at Johnson & Johnson and Sanofi, and previously developed causal and generative models for single-cell regulatory landscapes during postdoctoral work at MIT/CSAIL and the Broad. His background combines a PhD in Computer Science from the Max Planck Society with hands-on expertise in geometric deep learning, diffusion models, and statistical optimization, enabling translation of complex high-dimensional data into actionable therapeutic hypotheses. Known for applying algorithmic rigor to biological heterogeneity, he has a track record of finding cell-type–specific drivers and potential drug targets across cancers and immune cell atlases.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoctoral Associate Computer Science, Postdoctoral Associate Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Max Planck SocietyBachelor's degree Biotechnology, Bachelor's degree Biotechnology at Shahed UniversityOnline Leadership Principles, Online Leadership Principles at Harvard Business School
English, Turkish, Persian, German
Github Skills (15)
cran9
single-cell-genomics9
genomics9
bioinformatics8
sequencing6
single-cell-analysis6
seq5
rna-seq4
machine-learning-algorithms3
pipeline3
cancer-genomics3
clustering2
python2
heatmap2
data-integration1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CSBioAzim/DeepLearninggroup
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:80 commits, 105 pushes, 2 branches in 2 days
CSBioAzim/IsoRegNet
Apr 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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