Begüm Topçuoğlu
Principal Scientist at Bristol Myers Squibb
Summit, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBegüm Topçuoğlu is a Principal Scientist with 8 years of experience applying data science and responsible ML to pharmaceutical and cell therapy research, currently driving analytics at Bristol Myers Squibb. She combines a PhD in Microbiology with hands-on roles across industry and academia—Merck and University of Michigan Medical School—to translate clinical and manufacturing data into products that improve patient outcomes. An advocate for open-source and reproducible science, she focuses on correlative research and making ML in healthcare auditable and robust. Begüm has a track record of moving models from research to regulated environments, balancing scientific rigor with practical deployment constraints. Based in Summit, NJ, she brings domain fluency in cell therapy and pharmaceutical processes that helps bridge wet lab insights and data-driven decision making. Colleagues rely on her to embed responsible ML practices into workflows that must meet both clinical impact and compliance requirements.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Microbiology General, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Microbiology General at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Turkish, English
Github Skills (25)
reproducible-research10
r-package10
stable10
machine-learning10
sequencing10
versioning10
version-control9
git8
feature-selection7
multilabel-classification7
jekyll7
survival-analysis7
mothur7
predictive-modeling7
clustering6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SchlossLab/Topcuoglu_ML_mBio_2020
Jul 2018 - Jun 2020
Best practices for applying machine learning to bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequencing data
Contributions:1473 commits, 10 PRs, 985 pushes in 1 year 10 months
machine-learningsequencingreproducible-researchreproducible-paper
BTopcuoglu/schlosslab.github.io
Jun 2018 - Dec 2024
The website for the Schloss Lab at the University of Michigan
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
university-of-michiganjekylllabmichigan
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