Fedor Bezrukov
Bioinformatics Scientist
Lancy, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolFedor Bezrukov is a bioinformatics scientist and theoretical physicist with 13 years of research and algorithm-development experience spanning cancer genomics, RNA/Ribo-Seq, Hi-C and machine learning. He blends deep academic expertise in inflationary cosmology, dark matter and neutrino physics with hands-on NGS analysis and production algorithm leadership at SOPHiA GENETICS and the University of Geneva. Comfortable moving between statistical theory, large-scale numerical simulation and practical pipeline debugging, he has also contributed backend fixes to prominent open-source plotting tooling for Julia. An experienced educator and supervisor, he has taught and mentored from elementary school through graduate courses in statistical mechanics and field theory. Based in Geneva, he brings a rare cross-disciplinary toolkit that accelerates translational bioinformatics by borrowing rigor and modeling techniques from theoretical physics.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State University
English, Russian, French
Github Skills (4)
julia10
plot10
visualizations9
visualization9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
JuliaPlots/Plots.jl
Oct 2016 - Mar 2018
Powerful convenience for Julia visualizations and data analysis
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 10 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Fedor focused on debugging and improving the plotting library's backends. Their commits primarily addressed rendering issues within the PyPlot and GR backends, correcting DPI scaling, fixing logscale behavior, and handling unicode characters. They also fixed a bug in the GR polar plot and resolved issues with the function `:formatter` across multiple backends, including GR and PGFPlots, adding a new `:plain` formatter.
data-analysisjulia-languageconveniencevisualizationsdata-visualization
fedxa/PHYS40772
Mar 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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