Ivo Kwee
Co-Founder And CTO at BigOmics Analytics
Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland
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Top SchoolIvo Kwee is a co-founder and CTO with over a decade of experience building bioinformatics platforms and leading computational teams in translational research. He founded BigOmics Analytics to deliver a self-service omics analytics product (Omics Playground) that bridges life-science expertise and user-friendly data exploration. Trained in applied and medical physics (Delft, Hokkaido, UCL) and seasoned by postdoctoral AI work at IDSIA, he blends deep quantitative research with practical software delivery. Previously he led bioinformatics units at IOR and IRB, co-authored 50+ papers, secured competitive funding, and supervised numerous students. Known for translating complex genomics pipelines into accessible tools, he combines academic rigor with startup pragmatism from his base in Bellinzona, Switzerland.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Applied Physics, Engineer's degree Applied Physics at Delft University of TechnologyMaster of Engineering - MEng Applied Physics, Master of Engineering - MEng Applied Physics at Hokkaido UniversityUniversity College London
Github Skills (152)
genomics10
genomics-visualization10
data-analytics10
rna-seq10
analytics10
keras10
seq9
shiny-apps9
julia8
portable8
shinydashboard8
mxnet8
machine-learning8
mutation8
tensorflow8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bigomics/omicsplayground
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Visual self-service analytics platform for big omics data.
Contributions:2 releases, 16 reviews, 1447 commits in 3 years 9 months
data-analyticsanalyticsgenomics-visualizationrna-seq-analysisomics
bigomics/playbase
Apr 2023 - Apr 2025
Core back-end functionality and logic for OmicsPlayground
Contributions:3 reviews, 101 PRs, 780 pushes in 2 years
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