David Blumenthal
Professor at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolDavid Blumenthal is a tenure-track assistant professor and head of the Biomedical Network Science Lab at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, specializing in applying network science, AI, and combinatorial optimization to uncover molecular disease mechanisms. With eight years of research experience and prior postdoctoral work at TUM and Bozen, he bridges theoretical methods and translational biomedical problems. He also develops privacy-preserving, decentralized biomedical AI to enable secure cross-institutional studies on sensitive data—a practical focus that complements his algorithmic expertise. Trained in computer science, mathematics, and philosophy, he combines rigorous quantitative skills with an uncommon interdisciplinary perspective that informs both model design and ethical deployment.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus exchange Philosophy, Erasmus exchange Philosophy at The University of EdinburghMaster of Arts - MA Philosophy, Master of Arts - MA Philosophy at Freie Universität BerlinDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Free University of Bozen-BolzanoMaster of Science - MS Mathematics, Master of Science - MS Mathematics at Technische Universität Berlin
French, German, English, Italian
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Github Skills (9)
thegraph10
cpp10
edit-distance10
simulation8
algorithm7
python6
testing6
wordpress3
wordpress-themes2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dbblumenthal/amim-test-suite
Sep 2020 - Nov 2021
Testing the one-network-fits-all hypothesis
Contributions:42 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 2 months
testing
dbblumenthal/gedlib
Sep 2018 - Jun 2021
An easily extensible C++ library for (suboptimally) computing the graph edit distance between attributed graphs.
Contributions:96 commits, 3 PRs, 181 pushes in 2 years 9 months
cppedit-distancethegraph
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