Nic Dobbins
Biomedical Informatics And AI Subject Matter Expert
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNic Dobbins is a Biomedical Informatics and Clinical AI subject-matter expert with 11 years of experience building production-ready research and clinical software, currently supporting NIH projects. He has blended academic and industry leadership—serving as Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins, Head of Research Engineering at Medeloop, and Principal Solutions Architect at UW Medicine—while creating and leading development of widely used tools like Leaf and LeafAI for cohort discovery and dynamic query generation. A full-stack engineer by training with a PhD focused on clinical NLP and biomedical logical reasoning, he specializes in NLP-driven query generation, relational data modeling, and intuitive UI design for clinical researchers. Fluent in Japanese (JLPT N1), he brings cross-cultural communication skills to collaborative, multidisciplinary teams. Known for turning complex clinical requirements into auditable, user-friendly systems, he operates at the intersection of research, product, and engineering to accelerate clinical AI adoption.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, Doctor of Philosophy Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at University of WashingtonBachelor of Arts History Asian Languages and Literatures, Bachelor of Arts History Asian Languages and Literatures at University of Minnesota
Japanese, English
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Github Skills (96)
data-explorer10
svg10
javascript10
charts10
data-visualization10
typescript10
trend10
dictionary10
leaf10
csharp10
visualization10
dotnet-core10
react10
addon10
thunderbird9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
uwrit/leaf-scripts
May 2019 - Oct 2021
Collection of useful scripts for bootstrapping and managing a Leaf instance.
Contributions:1 release, 40 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 6 months
leafbootstrappinguseful-scripts
uw-bionlp/uwbionlp-parser
Aug 2020 - Mar 2021
A container-based CLI for executing various NLP algorithms on documents, developed by @uw-bionlp.
Contributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 7 months
nlpbionlppythondockermachine-learning
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