Mad Ball
Executive Director at Open Humans Foundation
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMad Ball is an executive leader and researcher with 13 years’ experience building participant-centered platforms for health and personal data, currently serving as Executive Director of the Open Humans Foundation. A Shuttleworth Fellow, Mad blends advocacy, community-building, and hands-on product development to apply “open” principles to biomedical research and citizen science. They co-founded Open Humans and have driven its technical and organizational growth while advising global personal genome projects and coordinating research collaborations. With a PhD in Biophysics from Harvard and a BS from Caltech, Mad uniquely bridges rigorous genomics expertise with practical web platform leadership. Notably, their work emphasizes empowering individuals to control and share their data for exploration and research, making the foundation both a research tool and a community-led ecosystem.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Biology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Biology at California Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biophysics at Harvard University
Github Skills (115)
python10
django-framework10
saml10
authentication10
xadmin10
login-system10
django10
imputation10
voting10
django-project10
webauthn10
openid-connect10
quantified-self10
two-factor-authentication10
account-management10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
NightscoutFoundation/dataxfer
Oct 2016 - Sep 2017
POC to develop a web-based data transfer tool from Nightscout dbs to other platforms
Contributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 19 pushes in 11 months
dbsdatawarehousetransfer-toolnightscoutplatforms
PersonalGenomesOrg/archive-genevieve-201505
May 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:75 commits, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 2 months
geneticbioinformaticsunderstandinggenetic-variants
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