Bede Constantinides
Research Fellow at University of Birmingham
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBede Constantinides is a computational researcher and bioinformatician with 12 years' experience building scalable, accurate genomic epidemiology tools to track infectious disease. He has led development and validation of production-grade host-depletion and surveillance platforms (e.g., Hostile, GPAS/EIT Pathogena) and helped establish the UK’s first ISO-accredited surge sequencing service using Oxford Nanopore technology. His work spans academic and industry settings—University of Oxford, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, and University of Birmingham—focusing on real-time, privacy-preserving (meta)genomic analysis and pangenome-aware methods. Bede combines deep algorithmic expertise from a PhD in Bioinformatics with hands-on systems engineering to ship open-source workflows used for national surveillance and client deployments. He also built validated reference resources for SARS-CoV-2 variant calling, reflecting a rare mix of methodological rigor and operational delivery. Based in Oxford, he continually pushes for scalable, reproducible tools that make sequencing actionable in public-health contexts.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at The University of ManchesterTaunton School
French, English
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Github Skills (200)
package-management10
python10
lora10
genomics10
genes10
pandas10
minhash10
bioconda10
data-science10
tree-structure10
conda10
sequence-alignment10
data-structure10
nim-language10
data-analysis10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
bede/vespasian
Jun 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:1 release, 92 commits, 15 pushes in 3 years 6 months
bede/venorm
Aug 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 issues in 4 years 10 months
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