Elmer Fernández
Leader Traslational Data Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab
Argentina
Summary
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Top SchoolElmer Fernández is a translational data science leader with over a decade of experience applying statistical learning and signal processing to genomics, proteomics and cardiovascular research across Argentina. As head of the BioDataMining BIA node and leader of the Translational Data Science & AI Lab at Fundación para el Progreso de la Medicina, he designs end-to-end pipelines for transcriptomics, proteomics and variant analysis and leads multi-source data integration for cancer genomics and precision medicine. He is the principal biostatistician and bioinformatician for a US NCI-funded molecular profiling study of breast cancer in Latin American women, and his group develops variant and exome analysis workflows used nationally. Beyond bioinformatics, he has led FDA-approved medical device signal processing (GALIX holter) development and guided the creation of Argentina’s first stent, reflecting a rare blend of computational, engineering and translational impact. Trained with a PhD in Advanced Computing and Applied AI, he specializes in GLMMs, SVMs and neural methods for big biomedical data while extending techniques to non-biomedical problems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Biomedical Engineer, Biomedical, Biomedical Engineer, Biomedical at Universidad Nacional de Entre RíosPhD, Advanced Computing and Applied Artificial Intelligence, PhD, Advanced Computing and Applied Artificial Intelligence at Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
English
Github Skills (21)
rna-seq8
structural-variation8
seq7
fusion6
mojo5
bioinformatics5
genomics5
protein-structure5
pytorch4
memory-efficient4
python3
neuroscience3
hla3
neuroimaging3
machine-learning3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
elmerfer/MIXTURE.App
Apr 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:125 commits, 2 PRs, 122 pushes in 1 year 8 months
elmerfer/MIXTURE
Nov 2018 - Apr 2022
Contributions:47 commits, 42 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
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