Jayvee Abella
Principal Data Scientist
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJayvee Abella is a Principal Data Scientist in Houston with 12 years of experience applying computational modeling, machine learning, and biomedical informatics to research and production problems. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Rice University where his thesis advanced simulation and analysis of protein structure and dynamics, and he has translated that deep scientific foundation into applied ML roles across healthcare and industrial settings. Jayvee’s career spans academic research, teaching, and industry positions—having scaled algorithms from robotics-inspired protein conformational analysis to deployable ML systems at startups and enterprise teams. He combines hands-on expertise in high-performance scientific computing with practical ML engineering, and his background includes running large-scale experiments on national HPC resources and mentoring students in AI and data science. An unexpected through-line is his fluency moving complex Fortran/C scientific code into modern, parallelized workflows, bridging legacy simulation tools and contemporary data products.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Biomedical Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Rice University
Cebuano, Spanish, Tagalog
Github Skills (2)
tinker1
bioinformatics1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jayveeabella/academic-kickstart
Aug 2019 - Aug 2024
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
KavrakiLab/APE-Gen
Feb 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:92 commits, 75 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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