Chas Nelson
Data, AI And Research Director
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChas Nelson is a data and AI leader with 11 years’ experience building research-driven products and teams at the intersection of biotech, medtech and global health. As Data, AI and Research Director at Fjelltopp and former CTO and founder of gliff.ai, he combines hands-on engineering (Python, SQL, TypeScript, React, Azure) with strategic delivery—turning losses into profit, growing revenue 200%, and increasing company valuation 20x. He has managed million-dollar, multi-stakeholder projects with WHO, UNICEF and national governments, led adoption of international data standards across ministries, and contributed to WHO-informed public health policy. Academically rooted with a PhD in Bioimage Informatics, Chas brings deep domain expertise in bioimaging and privacy-preserving ML techniques like federated learning, informed by both published research and applied product work. Based in Glasgow, he uniquely bridges rigorous academic methods and pragmatic productisation for impact-driven health tech.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioimage Informatics (Computing Sciences), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioimage Informatics (Computing Sciences) at Durham University
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Github Skills (200)
notebook10
hugo-theme10
netlify10
rmarkdown10
page-builder10
poppler10
binder10
beamer10
jupyter10
packaging10
rstudio10
forestry9
logger9
php9
r9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ChasNelson1990/chasnelson.co.uk
Apr 2016 - Feb 2025
The source code for my personal website.
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 99 pushes in 8 years 10 months
nextjs
northumbrian-data/gliff-py
Mar 2022 - Jan 2024
gliff.ai SDK – a Python SDL for developing plugins for the gliff.ai platform
Contributions:7 reviews, 6 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 9 months
pythondevelopinggliff-aisdlai-platform
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