Dimitris Polychronopoulos
AI Associate Director, Life Sciences R&D
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDimitris Polychronopoulos is an AI and life sciences leader with a decade of experience translating genomics and bioinformatics into drug discovery and clinical impact, currently serving as AI Associate Director for Life Sciences R&D. He combines a PhD in bioinformatics with hands-on engineering of knowledge graphs, recommendation systems and scalable cloud infrastructure, having driven projects from the 100K Genomes Project to AstraZeneca’s production knowledge graph and a Nature Communications-published CRISPR prioritisation framework. As a founder and head of discovery he has scaled teams and secured VC and industry partnerships, and his work has directly advanced rare-disease diagnostics and produced a clinical candidate for liver disease. Known for bridging deep computational expertise with product and business outcomes, he frequently advises startups and consults on data strategy, target ID and trial R&D. An uncommon strength is his track record of embedding reproducible, FAIR infrastructure and agile delivery into scientific teams to turn exploratory ML into routine practice.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Bioinformatics at National & Kapodistrian University of AthensBachelor of Science - BS Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bachelor of Science - BS Molecular Biology and Genetics at Democritus University of Thrace - (D.U.Th.)
English, German, Greek
Github Skills (49)
r9
parser9
dplyr9
grammar9
data-transformation8
data-manipulation8
genomes8
manipulation8
json7
sports-data7
polars7
proteins7
report-generator7
duckdb6
genomics6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dpolychr/personal
Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:42 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
dpolychr/dpolychr.github.io
Jul 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:179 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
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