Etienne Low-decarie
Manager, Biological Informatics Centre Of Excellence
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolEtienne Low-decarie is a multidisciplinary leader with 14 years of experience building and managing bioinformatics, app devops, and data science teams across government and academia, currently heading the Biological Informatics Centre of Excellence at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. He combines a PhD in biology with hands-on expertise in cloud and HPC bioinformatic pipelines, image analysis, and AI workflows, and has led data strategy and public data portals at organizations like the Canadian Space Agency. A prolific researcher and funder, he co-authored 25 publications (including PNAS) and secured competitive grants from agencies across the UK, Canada, and the US. An enthusiastic teacher and community organizer, he co-founded the Montreal R User Group, runs popular R workshops and shares code and workshops on GitHub. Unusually, his career bridges deep-field ecology—having taught marine ecology while scuba diving in Indonesia—with space life-sciences, having co-authored work with an astronaut, reflecting a rare blend of field, lab, and systems-level data engineering.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
DEC, Sciences, lettres et arts, DEC, Sciences, lettres et arts at College Jean-de-BrébeufPh.D, Biology, Ph.D, Biology at McGill University
English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
13,303reputation
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29answers
46questions
r
top-5%
Github Skills (60)
r9
isis7
frequency-distribution6
par6
satellite6
ggplot6
lm6
des6
plot6
ellipse6
scatter-plot6
thesaurus5
space5
effort5
metadata5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
low-decarie/Remote-sensing-and-GIS-practical
Oct 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
low-decarie/temperatureresponse
Oct 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 7 years 5 months
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