Neil Thomas
Staff Research Scientist at Biohub
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Thomas is a Staff Research Scientist based in San Francisco who builds AI tools at the intersection of machine learning and biology, with 11 years of experience spanning industry moonshots and academic research. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and has contributed ML methods for protein representation that were spotlighted at NeurIPS, plus production-scale genomics pipelines and cloud deployments earlier in his career. His roles at X, Google, and Biohub reflect a blend of high-throughput experimental thinking and scalable software engineering for protein design, functional annotation, and programmable organisms. Known to balance rigorous research with pragmatic engineering, he moves ideas from papers to benchmarks and pipelines, and his GitHub persona as a “cathemeral dreamer” hints at a creative, around-the-clock problem solver.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyHigher School of EconomicsSanta Monica High School
English, Russian
Github Skills (48)
fitness10
benchmark10
protein-sequences10
synthetic10
semi-supervised-learning10
supervised-learning10
language-modeling10
computational-biology10
amqp9
redis9
biology9
protein-design9
spread9
task-manager9
bioinformatics9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
thomas-a-neil/thomas-a-neil.github.io
Mar 2016 - Mar 2025
Website
Contributions:2 PRs, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 1 month
captaincapsaicin/nthomas
Aug 2017 - Jan 2022
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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