Eric Chen
Senior Bioinformatics Research Scientist
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolEric Chen is a Senior Bioinformatics Research Scientist in Austin with a decade of experience building GPU-accelerated AI systems and advanced statistical models for spatial and structural biology. He has driven impactful, open-source tooling at Carnegie Mellon for HuBMAP that automated segmentation QA/QC and improved segmentation across thousands of tissue images, and he translates 2D methods to 3D imaging to overcome limited-data bottlenecks. His PhD work produced generative models that synthesize realistic tissue images and an unsupervised framework that distinguished normal from metastatic cells with a 0.9 AUC-ROC on cryo-ET data, demonstrating a rare combination of theory and practical deployment. Now at St. Jude, he applies scalable ML and GPU engineering to biomedical problems, blending deep learning, interpretable models, and production-focused software design. He often leverages interpretable network motifs and weak supervision to extract biological insight, making complex model outputs actionable for researchers.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M UniversityPhD Computational Biology, PhD Computational Biology at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer ScienceBE Electrical Engineering, BE Electrical Engineering at South China University of Technology
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Github Skills (15)
computer-vision8
image-processing8
image8
python8
scientific-computing7
algorithms7
scipy7
pytorch1
machine-learning1
artificial-intelligence1
api1
deep-learning1
tomography1
tensorflow1
segmentation1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
murphygroup/CellSegmentationEvaluator
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Evaluating the quality of a cell segmentation method without reference.
Contributions:4 releases, 15 commits, 31 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Shen-Lab/cNMA
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 21 pushes, 1 comment in 2 days
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