Mathieu Fourment
Senior Data Scientist
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMathieu Fourment is a computational data scientist and group leader based in Sydney with over a decade of experience developing high-performance probabilistic models and inference tools for genomic epidemiology. He builds and publishes open-source software for large-scale simulation, Sequential Monte Carlo and variational/MCMC inference—work that has powered real-time outbreak analysis and evolutionary-rate estimation from pathogen genomes. With a PhD in bioinformatics and a track record across leading academic institutions, he blends deep statistical modeling, C/C++/Java/Stan implementation skills, and postgraduate teaching and mentorship. Notably, he translates complex phylogenetic theory into production-ready pipelines, including a C++ real-time outbreak tool and custom variational inference implementations that speed interpretation of bacterial and viral data.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer sciences, Master Computer sciences at Université de ToursBachelor degree Cellular biology, Bachelor degree Cellular biology at Université Côte d'AzurPhD Bioinformatics, PhD Bioinformatics at Macquarie UniversityMaster Bioinformatics, Master Bioinformatics at University of Glasgow
English, French
Github Skills (36)
tree-viewer10
genetic-algorithm10
variational-inference10
package-management10
beast10
conda10
location10
mcmc10
bayesian10
pystan10
evolution10
phylogenetics10
bioinformatics10
stan10
online-algorithms9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
4ment/phylostan
Sep 2016 - Dec 2022
Phylogenetic inference using Stan
Contributions:1 release, 56 commits, 42 pushes in 6 years 4 months
inferencestanpystanphylogeneticsvariational-inference
matsengrp/smctc
May 2017 - Oct 2018
Our fork of Adam M. Johansen's Sequential Monte Carlo Template Class
Contributions:1 release, 8 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 6 months
monte-carlo
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