Danielle Pace
Senior Machine Learning Scientist II at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDanielle Pace is a Senior Machine Learning Scientist with 15 years of experience building and translating advanced ML methods for clinical imaging, EHR, ECG waveforms and genetics across academia and industry. Currently at the Broad Institute’s ML4H team, she develops representation learning, novel imaging phenotypes, and clinical risk-prediction models in close collaboration with clinician scientists. Her background spans a PhD in computer science from MIT, neuroimaging research at Mass General, and industry R&D where she delivered production-grade C++ tools and led NIH-funded projects. An active open-source contributor, she has enhanced medical-imaging toolkits (e.g., CTK) with usability and visualization improvements that smooth clinical workflows. Known for combining rigorous probabilistic modeling with practical software engineering, she thrives on turning messy, heterogeneous clinical data into robust, deployable ML solutions.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Engineering Science Biomedical Engineering, Master of Engineering Science Biomedical Engineering at Western UniversityBachelor of Computing (Honours) Biomedical Computing, Bachelor of Computing (Honours) Biomedical Computing at Queen's UniversityPart-Time Classroom Studies Mathematics, Part-Time Classroom Studies Mathematics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, German
Github Skills (9)
medical-imaging10
c-language10
vtk10
cross-platform10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
slicer10
3d10
python4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
commontk/CTK
Aug 2010 - Mar 2012
A set of common support code for medical imaging, surgical navigation, and related purposes.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Danielle implemented new features for the `ctkMatrixWidget`, including the addition of editable properties, minimum/maximum value setting, and decimal/step control. They also added an icon to the `ctkWorkflowWidgetStep` that is used in the 'goTo' buttons in `ctkWorkflowButtonBoxWidget`. The user also added a new functionality related to the `ctkVTKMagnifyView` and fixed some zooming edge cases.
pythonmitk3d-slicerosgic-plus-plus
daniellepace/minimal-mistakes
Aug 2018 - Jul 2019
:triangular_ruler: Jekyll theme for personal sites, blogs, and portfolios. Two-columns and extremely flexible.
Contributions:59 pushes in 11 months
rulertwo-columnssitesportfoliosjekyll
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