Garyk Brixi
Student Researcher at Harvard University
Potomac, Maryland, United States
Summary
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RockstarGaryk Brixi is a student researcher and computational biologist with eight years of experience applying machine learning to biological problems, currently conducting genome-wide association studies at Harvard Chan School. He has hands-on expertise building and interpreting convolutional neural networks for neural data and reimplementing published models in TensorFlow and PyTorch, linking computational models to vision science. His background spans industry and research internships—from scalable workflow tooling at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston to deploying predictive systems and recommendation engines in production at startups. Garyk founded a social-impact venture that raised $52,000 to pilot optimized malnutrition treatments in Malawi and led treatment development at Valid Nutrition, where his ML-driven logistics models demonstrated meaningful cost savings. He combines wet-lab adjacent genomics experience (prime editing pipelines at the Broad Institute) with practical software delivery (Floki web app, Flask deployments), making him effective at translating research questions into deployable tools. Notably, he repeatedly improves model performance through custom loss functions and automation, showing a bias toward measurable impact and reproducible pipelines.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Chinese, Czech, English
Github Skills (23)
tree-search10
evolutionary9
proteins9
reduction7
extraction7
reinforcement-learning7
python7
modeling7
deep-reinforcement-learning7
cpp7
scale6
deep-learning6
machine-learning6
artificial-intelligence6
feature-extraction6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gkarthik/floki-dashboard
Feb 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:59 commits, 52 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
garykbrixi/esm_gap_distance
May 2023 - Oct 2024
Evolutionary Scale Modeling (esm) with distance embedding gap for multichain
Contributions:1 release, 9 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 5 months
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