Nicholas Sofroniew
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Sofroniew is an AI-for-Science engineer with 11 years of experience blending computational neuroscience, imaging, and machine learning to build tools that accelerate biological discovery. He holds a PhD and MMath from Cambridge and has driven research-to-product transitions at institutions including HHMI, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and EvolutionaryScale, now contributing to Anthropic as a Member of Technical Staff. Nicholas has a strong track record of shipping open-source imaging software (notably contributions to napari and Vispy) and building large-scale experimental systems such as a 2-photon mesoscope that was commercialized. He excels at bridging deep technical research with product and team leadership across imaging, single-cell biology, and ML infrastructure, and often focuses on practical, test-backed improvements to visualization and volume rendering.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Neuroscience at University of Cambridge
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Github Skills (18)
mesh10
visualization10
qt10
python10
volume-rendering10
user-interface10
numpy10
front-end-development10
visualizations10
opengl10
testing9
documentation9
ui-design7
interface-design7
dask-distributed6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
vispy/vispy
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
Main repository for Vispy
Role in this project:
Software Engineer
Software EngineerContributions:13 commits, 6 PRs, 63 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to the `vispy/vispy` repository by addressing issues related to visual rendering and mesh manipulation. They fixed a marker rotation scaling problem and simplified related code. Furthermore, they implemented and improved mesh bounds and volume rendering functionality, including adding interpolation methods and tests. They also made a change to the setup configuration.
vispypythonopenglvisualization
sofroniewn/2pRAM-paper
May 2016 - Aug 2017
Notebooks accompanying the 2-photon random access mesoscope (2p-RAM) paper
Contributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 34 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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