Jonas Almeida
NCI DCEG Senior Investigator, Chief Data Scientist
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolJonas Almeida is a senior data scientist and investigator with 16+ years applying bioinformatics, machine learning, and large-scale web/cloud computing to cancer genomics and precision medicine. As Chief Data Scientist at NCI/DCEG he designs researcher-facing, cost-effective analytic infrastructure and leads real-time “Big Data” cancer analytics while also conducting independent research. His academic leadership spans professorships and CTO roles where he built integrative informatics platforms (including work leading to S3DB) and trained the next generation of biomedical data scientists. Known for blending semantic web formalisms with scalable cloud+apps architectures, he connects high-throughput computational pathology to practical epidemiological studies. He holds a PhD in Biological/Biosystems Engineering and maintains public biosketch and citation records that underscore a prolific, impact-driven research portfolio.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Biological/Biosystems Engineering, PhD, Biological/Biosystems Engineering at Universidade Nova de Lisboa
English, Portuguese, French, Spanish
Github Skills (89)
cancer-genomics10
corona10
cloud-services10
nonlinear-regression10
nonlinear9
api9
python9
regression9
traverse9
visualization9
aws9
bioinformatics9
vcf-files9
carbon-emissions9
vcenter8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
episphere/mortalitytracker
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
tracking causes of death from CDC data APIs
Contributions:230 commits, 2 PRs, 227 pushes in 2 years 6 months
causesapideathcdc-datatracking
mathbiol/openHealth
Sep 2014 - May 2018
Contributions:183 commits, 82 pushes in 3 years 8 months
health-dataexplorehealthsandboxpublic-health
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