Maxime Prost is a Product Manager at Merck Life Science with nine years of cross-disciplinary experience bridging chemistry, biotech R&D and operational excellence. Trained as a chemical engineer and PhD organic chemist from École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and CPE Lyon, he has led production qualification, Lean Six Sigma projects and strategic budgets for IVD microsphere manufacturing. He blends hands-on lab research—authoring fluorogenic probe synthesis and in vitro evaluations—with data science contributions to scvi-tools, where he improved a VAE for single-cell and spatial omics analysis. Known for adaptability, rigor and fast problem solving, he thrives on translating deep technical knowledge into product decisions that improve customer experience. A practical polymath, he moves comfortably between the bench, the factory floor and open-source computational biology.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctorat, Chimie organique, Mention Très Honorable, Doctorat, Chimie organique, Mention Très Honorable at Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon
Ingénieur, Chimie - Génie des procédés, Ingénieur, Chimie - Génie des procédés at CPE Lyon
Chimie organique et bioorganique, Chimie organique et bioorganique at Université de Montréal
Deep probabilistic analysis of single-cell and spatial omics data
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Contributions:52 commits, 4 PRs, 16 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Maxime primarily contributed to the development and improvement of a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) model for single-cell and spatial omics data analysis. Their commits involved modifying the VAE architecture, incorporating batch correction techniques, and integrating a t-SNE visualization for batch mixing analysis. The user also implemented a semi-supervised classification framework, integrated the retina dataset, and added an early stopping criterion.
Contributions:1 release, 16 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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Maxime Prost - Product Manager at Merck Life Science