Mike Hucka
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Top SchoolMike Hucka is a Staff Software Engineer at Google Quantum AI with 24 years of experience building open-source software, community standards, and research-facing tools across AI, cognitive science, computational neuroscience, and systems biology. He spent much of his career at Caltech, leading the SBML project and cofounding COMBINE while creating libraries, desktop apps, and an ML system for handwritten-archive transcription. Known for turning standards into usable software, he has repeatedly delivered production systems—such as a full-stack digital lending platform built in under three months—that are adopted beyond his home institution. Combining deep academic training (Ph.D. EECS) with decades of practical engineering, he bridges research and production workflows and quietly shapes scientific software ecosystems.
24 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of MichiganThe University of Utah
English, Czech, French
Stackoverflow
2,239reputation
247kreached
22answers
58questions
Github Skills (200)
data-stream10
testing10
metadata10
bulk-operation10
perl10
automation10
cpp10
genetic10
markup-language10
api10
neural-network10
optical-character-recognition10
qml10
systems-biology10
open-access10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
mhucka/mhucka.github.io
Apr 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:273 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
datatogether/research
May 2017 - Sep 2017
📚 A compilation of research relevant to Data Together's efforts tackling the general problem of data resilience & interactivity
Contributions:68 commits, 5 PRs, 45 pushes in 3 months
compilationdatadata-scienceresilienceproblem
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