Ilya Yakavets
Staff Scientist at Acceleration Consortium
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Yakavets is a Staff Scientist with eight years of experience building autonomous organ-on-a-chip platforms for drug screening, currently leading efforts at the Human Organ Mimicry Self-Driving Laboratory within the Acceleration Consortium at the University of Toronto. His work uniquely blends microphysiological systems and machine learning—during a PRiME postdoc he developed a tumor-on-a-chip platform that identifies optimal sequential multidrug regimens to maximize efficacy while minimizing harm. Ilya holds a PhD in Nanotechnology and Bioengineering (Universities of Lorraine and Belarusian State University), where his research earned the Lydie and Michel Wittner prize, and earlier degrees in Biophysics and Physics with honors. He has moved between academia and translational research roles in Europe and Canada, bringing hands-on lab experience together with computational modeling to accelerate drug discovery. A practical innovator, he focuses on automating experimental workflows to make complex, high-content assays reproducible and decision-ready.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Биотехнологии, Биотехнологии at Belarusian State UniversityBioSE, BioSE at Universite de Lorraine
Русский, Английский, Французский, Белорусский
Github Skills (73)
tao10
pci9
template-engine9
python8
semantic-web8
linked-data8
preconditions8
skos8
sparql8
testing7
authentication7
rdf7
printable7
zeplin7
php7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
oat-sa/extension-tao-sync
Sep 2018 - Aug 2022
TAO synchronisation for offline client data
Contributions:18 releases, 1 review, 12 PRs in 4 years
synchronisationincrementalzeplinstagingoffline
oat-sa/extension-lti-proctoring
Jul 2018 - Sep 2022
LTI Proctoring extension
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 7 PRs in 4 years 2 months
ltiproctoring
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