Michal Balcerak
Associated Researcher
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMichal Balcerak is an associate researcher at the ETH AI Center and a PhD candidate at the University of Zurich (with ties to ETH AI Center) specializing in energy-based models, inverse problems, and computational biology. With 11 years of experience spanning academic research at Harvard and CERN, fintech R&D, and hardware-software co-design for genome mapping, he blends deep mathematical physics, PDE-constrained optimization, and machine learning to tackle biological and medical inverse problems. He has applied hybrid neural-classical methods to tumor and cancer cell localization using PDE priors, and previously built ML frameworks for LHC collision topology identification and quantitative trading state classifiers. Michal’s background in physics, mathematics, and engineering gives him a rare cross-disciplinary fluency—equally comfortable deriving model theory and engineering performant implementations. He is open to collaborations and conversations across research and industry.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Physics, Master's degree, Physics at The University of GöttingenAGH UniversityEntrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Startup School OnlineBachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at Jagiellonian UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of Zurich
Github Skills (29)
virus8
bioinformatics7
genomes7
sequencing7
genomics7
snakemake6
pipe5
minhash5
genome5
pipeline4
viewer4
dicomweb4
react4
microscopy4
digital-pathology3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
michalogit/snake_hisat
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
michalogit/snakemaketax
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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