Kyle Harrington
Senior Staff AI ML Reseach Scientist at napari
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Harrington is a Senior Staff AI/ML Research Scientist with 15 years of experience applying frontier machine learning to biological imaging, from molecular structures to whole organisms. At Biohub he leads foundation-model work for large-scale imaging, spearheaded CryoLens (3D generative reconstruction), and co-architected the CZII CryoET Kaggle competition that attracted ~1,200 teams. His background blends academic depth (PhD from Brandeis) and hands-on engineering—co-developing tools like copick for agentic cryoET workflows and co-founding album for decentralized scientific software sharing. A former DARPA technical advisor on lifelong and adversarial ML programs and a steering council member for napari, he bridges robust research, open-source ecosystems, and production ML systems. He’s equally at home developing differentiable biological models and scaling multimodal vision architectures, with a recurring focus on making cutting-edge ML deployable in real biological labs.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Artificial Life, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Artificial Life at Hampshire CollegePh. D., Computer Science, Ph. D., Computer Science at Brandeis University
Github Skills (200)
python10
simulator10
image-processing10
image-viewer10
forge10
vispy10
3d10
mesh10
system-programming10
tubular10
rendering10
genetic10
fiji10
opengl10
stack-based10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
scussatb/GRNEAT
Jan 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year
gene-regulatory-networkevolutionregulatoryaugmenting-topologiesbioinformatics
kephale/napari
Aug 2022 - Dec 2024
napari: a fast, interactive, multi-dimensional image viewer for python
Contributions:3 reviews, 4 PRs, 153 pushes in 2 years 5 months
multi-dimensionalpythonimageimage-viewerdimensional
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