Jaakko Leinonen
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Tampere University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolJaakko Leinonen is a computational geneticist and postdoctoral researcher with over a decade of experience translating large-scale genomic data from resources like FinnGen and UK Biobank into biological insights. His PhD combined human genetic association studies with functional follow-up in zebrafish using CRISPR-Cas9, and his postdoctoral work has mapped genetic mechanisms behind sex differences and hormonal effects on health and development. Currently based in Helsinki and leading projects on the complex genetics of pre-eclampsia, he blends hands-on molecular biology, GWAS, and causal inference methods such as Mendelian Randomization. Outside academia he contributes practical software fixes to open-source projects (including HEVC encoder tooling) and coaches endurance sports, bringing the same analytical rigor and team leadership to both research and community coaching.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Human Genetics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Human Genetics at Newcastle UniversityMaster of Philosophy (M.Phil.), Human genetics, Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.), Human genetics at University of Helsinki
Github Skills (7)
c1710
command-line-interface10
video-encoding10
c1110
hevc10
cli10
command-line10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ultravideo/kvazaar
May 2016 - Mar 2021
An open-source HEVC encoder
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:569 commits, 4 PRs, 96 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jaakko primarily focused on enhancing the HEVC encoder's functionality and usability. Their contributions involved modifying the command-line interface (CLI) to include new parameters like `--cu-split-termination`, which influences the CU splitting behavior. They fixed a type conversion issue in parsing the CU split termination option and implemented improvements related to the GOP (Group of Pictures) functionality. Additionally, the user adjusted code for a more accurate and concise output, as well as added code to address minor issues.
hevcencodervideohevc-encoderh265
MrAsura/kvazaar
May 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:210 pushes, 15 branches, 2 tags in 4 years 4 months
hevc-encoderhevcencoder
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