Nathan Russell
Principal Machine Learning Scientist at Flagship Pioneering
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Russell is a Principal Machine Learning Scientist with a decade of experience building deep learning solutions across text, molecular design, single-cell transcriptomics, and networked data, currently leading ML efforts at Flagship Pioneering. He combines hands-on model development with designing the production data infrastructure required to run industrial-scale discovery engines, having previously helped grow Cellarity’s ML platform for single-cell driven drug discovery. His PhD work produced scalable algorithms—from attentive graph neural networks for reaction prediction to linear-time manifold embeddings for single-cell data—that improved state-of-the-art performance while enabling tractable searches over astronomically large molecular spaces. Comfortable moving between research and deployment, he has a track record of turning novel ML methods into practical pipelines that accelerate drug discovery and experimental optimization. Based in Boston, he brings a rare blend of academic rigor, systems engineering, and cross-disciplinary collaboration with chemists and biologists.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy Candidate (Ph.D.) Informatics - Data Analytics and Information Visualization, Doctor of Philosophy Candidate (Ph.D.) Informatics - Data Analytics and Information Visualization at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (16)
rdkit10
cheminformatics10
python9
issue-tracking8
chemistry7
computational-biology6
toolbox6
materials-informatics6
vscode5
vscode-extension5
anaconda5
benchmark4
machine-learning4
jupyter4
protein-design4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nate-russell/Scholar2Go
May 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
nate-russell/dev-kit
Dec 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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