Cameron Nugent
Lead Bioinformatician
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolCameron Nugent is a Lead Bioinformatician with a decade of experience building production-grade genomics infrastructure and machine learning tools for large-scale biological data. Based in Halifax, he has led projects that processed thousands of whole-genome samples, discovered millions of novel markers, and deployed cloud- and cluster-based pipelines that balance resource efficiency with reproducibility. His background spans academic research (PhD) and industry roles where he shipped R and Python packages used by thousands, developed alignment-free sequence classifiers with >99.5% accuracy, and packaged ML models for edge deployment. Comfortable across C++, Go, Python, R and Azure/Slurm environments, he bridges statistical rigor and software engineering to turn terabytes of raw data into actionable biological insight.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at University of GuelphBachelors of Science Honours, Evolutionary Biology, Bachelors of Science Honours, Evolutionary Biology at Queen's University
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Github Skills (62)
xgboost10
kaggle10
python10
data-science10
r10
scraper10
machine-learning10
beautifulsoup10
datasets10
keras10
tensorflow10
denoising9
genome9
bioinformatics9
hidden-markov-model9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CNuge/alfie
Feb 2020 - Apr 2022
A neural network for Alignment-free identification of eDNA
Contributions:129 commits, 2 PRs, 120 pushes in 2 years 2 months
neural-networkmachine-learningdeep-learningpythonbioinformatics
CNuge/snp-placer
May 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:203 commits, 2 PRs, 174 pushes in 5 years 6 months
placesequencegenomereference-genomesnps
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