Michael Nute
Co-Founder And CTO at Train Genomics
Southborough, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Nute is a quantitative technology leader and co-founder who blends a PhD in Statistics with a decade-plus track record building bioinformatics and high-performance computing solutions for microbial genomics. He has founded and led technical teams from research roles at Rice University to startups like Anvil Diagnostics and Train Genomics, turning statistical models into fast, interpretable pipelines for high-throughput DNA data. His background in pricing strategy, risk management, and corporate development gives him uncommon strength at the intersection of product, analytics, and go-to-market decision making. Known for making actionable inferences when reference databases are incomplete, he focuses on methods that are statistically powerful, computationally efficient, and easy for stakeholders to understand. Based in Massachusetts, he pairs academic rigor with startup execution, often translating messy real-world data into robust predictive systems.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Mathematics Economics, B.A. Mathematics Economics at Cornell UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (42)
coordinates10
speedometer10
hidden-markov-model10
altitude9
nmea9
metagenomics9
phylogeny8
gps8
genomes8
sequence-alignment8
bioinformatics7
utm7
genome7
genomics6
pipeline6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MGNute/phylogeny_utilities
Feb 2015 - Sep 2022
Contributions:39 commits, 37 pushes in 7 years 8 months
MGNute/misc_c_utilities
Dec 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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