Gavin Oliver
Sr. Principal ML Bioinformatician
Rochester-Austin, Minnesota Area United States
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Top SchoolGavin Oliver is a senior principal ML bioinformatician who builds interdisciplinary solutions at the nexus of clinical, computational, and laboratory science to directly impact patient care and product development. With over a decade of experience advancing oncology and rare-disease genomics at institutions like Mayo Clinic and commercial labs, he has led teams that delivered clinically predictive multiomic models, pioneering fusion transcript detection and a Neo4j-based rare disease prioritization algorithm. At Xilis he translated imaging and single-cell data into high-performing organoid drug-response models and invented a batch-effect detection and correction framework that markedly improved clinical correlations. Now driving next-generation closed-loop control of cellular differentiation with ML at iORGANBIO, he combines hands-on method development, publication leadership, and director-level team building. Notably, his work spans from creating early NGS product pipelines to deploying modern image-embedding models (DINOv2) on hundreds of thousands of organoids, reflecting a rare mix of foundational bioinformatics and cutting-edge ML applied to translational problems.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of SunderlandMasters Degree, MSc Bioinformatics, Masters Degree, MSc Bioinformatics at Ulster UniversityDiploma in Industrial Studies, Physiological Research, Diploma in Industrial Studies, Physiological Research at University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
Github Skills (12)
conditionals10
ordinal9
regression6
bioinformatics6
classification6
pathogen5
genomics5
blast5
sequencing4
xgboost3
tensorflow3
monarchinitiative1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
GarrettJenkinson/condor_tensorflow
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
CONditionals for Ordinal Regression and classification in tensorflow
Contributions:26 commits in 3 days
regressionxgboostordinal-regressionordinaltensorflow
GarrettJenkinson/borealis
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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