Jake Lever
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
3 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 (100)
python10
relation10
training-data10
spanish10
mining10
versioning10
biomedical-text-mining10
pubmed10
relation-extraction10
stable10
version-control10
text-mining10
extraction10
biomedical10
chunked9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jakelever/corona-web
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021
Website for viewing database of Coronavirus research at CoronaCentral.ai
Contributions:333 commits, 3 PRs, 68 pushes in 1 year 1 month
nextjsdatabasetext-mining
NCBI-Hackathons/PubRunner
Jan 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 108 commits, 55 pushes in 10 months
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