Jake Lever
Senior Lecturer at University of Glasgow School of Computing Science
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJake Lever is a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow with 10 years of experience applying machine learning, high-performance computing and bioinformatics to biomedical text mining. He completed a PhD in Bioinformatics at UBC and followed with postdoctoral work at Stanford's Helix Group, bringing research-grade methods into deployable systems. His background spans FPGA acceleration, CUDA image-processing for connectomics, and production-focused text-mining pipelines built during a visiting stint at NCBI, highlighting a rare mix of low-level performance engineering and applied biomedical NLP. Based in Glasgow, he combines academic teaching and research with practical deployments for cluster and HPC environments, often optimizing for regular, scalable literature indexing. Colleagues would note his ability to translate complex computational approaches into tools that run reliably at scale.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BEng 1st Class Software Engineering, BEng 1st Class Software Engineering at The University of EdinburghDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Bioinformatics at The University of British ColumbiaCalifornia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (84)
snakemake10
python10
training-data10
spanish10
chunked10
nomenclature10
versioning10
biomedical-text-mining10
pubmed10
relation-extraction10
stable10
version-control10
text-mining10
driver10
latex9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jakelever/biowordlists
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Biomedical wordlists (of drugs, genes, etc) for several text mining projects
Contributions:72 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
text-miningbionlpnomenclature
jakelever/civicmine
Dec 2017 - Jan 2023
Text mining cancer biomarkers for the CIVIC database
Contributions:144 commits, 77 pushes, 11 comments in 5 years 2 months
databasetext-miningcancerbionlpbiomarkers
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