Jacob Barhak
Computational Disease Modeler
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJacob Barhak is a computational disease modeler with 13 years of experience building high-performance disease progression models and clinical data standardization tools. He leads The Reference Model for Disease Progression as an independent researcher and runs ClinicalUnitMapping.com to harmonize clinical data using machine learning. His background includes senior software development of the Michigan Model for Diabetes and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Technion, reflecting a blend of rigorous research and production-grade engineering. Comfortable across HPC, ML, and clinical informatics, he focuses on translating complex biological questions into scalable, auditable simulation software. Notably, he applies manufacturing and instrumentation experience from earlier academic work to drive robust, reproducible modeling pipelines.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechanical Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
68reputation
4kreached
3answers
2questions
Github Skills (84)
python10
javascript10
bokeh10
ipywidgets10
pyodide10
voila10
hvplot10
altair10
plotly10
holoviews10
jupyter10
nvidia10
visualization10
matplotlib10
data-visualisation10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Jacob-Barhak/Jacob-Barhak.github.io
Feb 2019 - Nov 2023
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
Jacob-Barhak/MIST
Jun 2013 - May 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 4 pushes, 4 comments in 4 years 11 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.