Florian Schmidt
Associate Director
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Schmidt is an Associate Director combining 11 years of computational biology and machine learning experience to drive next-generation TCR therapeutics from multi-omics single-cell data. He holds an award-winning PhD and has authored widely used tools and papers on T-cell specificity prediction, peptide loading, scRNA-seq analysis, and gene regulation algorithms (e.g., TEPIC), bridging academic rigor with industry impact at ImmunoScape. Florian blends hands-on method development and production ML to translate complex single-cell and epigenomics signals into actionable biomarkers and therapeutic candidates. Internationally experienced across Singapore and Europe, he also teaches and mentors in AI-for-genomics and has stepped into diverse roles—from emergency clinical testing during COVID to running a European model-train import business—highlighting a pragmatic, interdisciplinary approach.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doktor (Ph.D.), Computational Biology, Doktor (Ph.D.), Computational Biology at Universität des Saarlandes200h Teacher Training with Arun Rana, Yoga Alliance, Roots of Hatha, 200h Teacher Training with Arun Rana, Yoga Alliance, Roots of Hatha at Pure Yoga Singapore
German, English, French
Github Skills (15)
binding10
transcription10
rna-seq10
bioinformatics10
factor10
genomics10
transcriptomics10
r-package10
clustering10
sequencing10
calculus8
causal8
seq7
variants4
datasets1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
prabhakarlab/RCAv2
Sep 2019 - Aug 2021
R package for robust clustering of single cell RNA sequencing data
Contributions:332 commits, 276 pushes in 2 years
r-packagesingle-cell-rna-sequencingsequencing-datarobust-clusteringsequencing
SchulzLab/TEPIC
Mar 2016 - May 2021
Annotation of genomic regions using transcription factor binding sites and epigenetic data
Contributions:1 release, 143 commits, 2 PRs in 5 years 2 months
transcription-factorbinding-sitesepigenetic-dataregionstranscription
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