Keywan Hassani-pak
Chief Executive Officer at KnetMiner
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKeywan Hassani-pak is a bioinformatics leader and founder with a PhD in Bioinformatics and 17+ years translating complex genomics data into actionable discovery. As Head of Bioinformatics at Rothamsted Research he leads a cross-disciplinary team delivering robust pipelines, reproducible platforms, and training that accelerate multi-omics research across species. As CEO and founder of KnetMiner he combines knowledge graphs with modern AI, including LLMs, to build an AI-assisted gene discovery platform used to uncover genes and pathways in plant and animal science. He has published 50+ papers and acted as principal investigator on major UK and EU grants, bridging methodological research with real-world impact. Known for shaping products that empower scientists, he balances hands-on R&D with strategic partnership-building to scale tools globally. Based in St Albans, he brings an unusual blend of academic depth and product-focused entrepreneurship that drives both discovery and adoption.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at Bielefeld University
English, German, Persian
Github Skills (38)
genome10
webapp10
visualization9
visualize9
gwas9
galaxy9
scale9
rdf9
metagenomics8
knowledge-graph8
chip-seq8
cancer-genomics8
genes8
biology7
data-analytics6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
marco-brandizi/knetminer-wiki
Oct 2013 - Jul 2019
Contributions:84 commits in 5 years 9 months
Rothamsted/rothamsted.github.io
Sep 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:3 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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