Nick Harding
Associate Director Of Data Science
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Harding is an Associate Director of Data Science with 11 years of experience applying statistical and computational methods to genomics and precision medicine. He combines deep domain expertise in NGS, gene expression and per-base ML models with pragmatic software engineering—favoring tools like dask, xarray, polars and zarr to build scalable, queryable biological data structures. Experienced both in academia (Oxford) and industry, he has led teams and optimized processes to turn unstructured biological inputs into structured, reproducible analyses and pipelines (Snakemake/CWL) on cloud platforms. His background in Bayesian networks and probabilistic modelling informs rigorous approaches to complex problems such as biomarker development and functional genomics. A practical open-source author (genomeplot, xpclr) who cares as much about data design as algorithms, he often focuses on how data structures drive long-term code quality and maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Bayesian Network Models in Epidemiology, Ph.D. Bayesian Network Models in Epidemiology at The University of ManchesterB.A. (Hons) Biological Sciences, B.A. (Hons) Biological Sciences at University of OxfordM.Sc Genetic Epidemiology, M.Sc Genetic Epidemiology at The University of Sheffield
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (73)
package-management10
statistic10
genomics10
fasta10
bioconda10
conda10
samtools10
indexing10
bioinformatics10
infer9
python9
random-access9
genetics9
inference9
sequence9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hardingnj/NAF
Jun 2017 - Nov 2019
Various NAF analyses
Contributions:22 PRs, 36 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 6 months
bioinformaticsnafanalyses
hardingnj/volcanoshiny
Mar 2015 - Jan 2026
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 issues in 10 years 11 months
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