John St John
Principal Drug Discovery AI Applied Scientist at NVIDIA
California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn St John is a Principal Drug Discovery AI Applied Scientist with 15 years of experience applying machine learning and computational biology to early cancer detection and therapeutics. Currently at NVIDIA after roles at Amazon, Ravel, and a multi‑role tenure at Freenome, he blends research-grade genomics expertise with production ML and cloud-scale engineering. He co-founded Driver to empower cancer patients and has led genome assembly and transcriptomics projects dating back to his PhD work at UC Santa Cruz, giving him deep end-to-end experience from sequencing data to deployed models. Known for moving complex bioinformatics into product teams, he bridges academic rigor and industry delivery to accelerate diagnostic impact. Based in California, he pairs a CS undergraduate foundation with a master’s in bioinformatics to tackle high-stakes, multidisciplinary problems. An underappreciated strength is his track record of shepherding distributed international collaborations into published science while transitioning those insights into commercial AI systems.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer and Information Science, BS, Computer and Information Science at University of OregonUniversity of California Santa Cruz
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transformers10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jstjohn/cscripts
Mar 2012 - Apr 2012
Contributions:26 commits in 27 days
jstjohn/KentLib
Jan 2011 - Oct 2012
Contributions:181 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 9 months
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