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 (84)
cancer-genomics10
cloud-services10
visualization10
nonlinear-regression10
data-api10
traverse9
bioinformatics9
sequence9
vcf-files9
carbon-emissions9
corona8
javascript8
digital-pathology8
vcenter8
health8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
usm/fold
Oct 2019 - Jul 2025
Contributions:38 pushes in 5 years 10 months
jonasalmeida/fminsearch
Jan 2014 - Nov 2020
nonlinear regression in javascript
Contributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 16 pushes in 6 years 11 months
javascriptnonlinear-regression
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