Niklas Korsbo
Senior Product Engineer at Pumas-AI, Inc.
Gothenburg, Sweden
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Top SchoolNiklas Korsbo is a Senior Product Engineer and scientist blending nine years of experience in systems biology, mathematics and physics to build AI-augmented pharmacometric tools at Pumas-AI. As lead of DeepPumas he drives semi-mechanistic machine learning and model personalisation for healthcare, bridging mechanistic modelling with production-grade ML. His background includes a PhD from Cambridge in computational biology and top-graded MSc work in theoretical physics and systems biology, giving him deep quantitative and biological intuition. An active Julia enthusiast, he contributes to core visualization tooling by improving the Plots.jl pgfplots backend for finer legend control and DPI-managed PNGs. Based in Gothenburg, he combines research rigor with product engineering to ship reliable scientific software. Outside work he balances technical leadership with hands-on development—also noted by his GitHub role enhancing plotting backends.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology at University of CambridgeMaster of Science (MS), Theoretical physics and systems biology, Top grade in all courses, Master of Science (MS), Theoretical physics and systems biology, Top grade in all courses at Lund University
English, Swedish
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Github Skills (11)
visualization10
visualizations10
back-end-development10
plot10
julia10
type-conversion6
atom-editor6
struct6
boilerplate6
differential-equations6
immutability6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JuliaPlots/Plots.jl
Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
Powerful convenience for Julia visualizations and data analysis
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 23 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Niklas primarily focused on enhancing the `pgfplots.jl` backend for the Plots.jl library. The contributions centered around improving legend customization, allowing for adjustments to opacity and font properties. Additional work included addressing layout specifications and enabling DPI control for PNG images generated by the `pgfplotsx()` backend. These changes improve the user's ability to configure plots with better visual control.
data-analysisjulia-languageconveniencevisualizationsdata-visualization
korsbo/Latexify.jl
Oct 2017 - Sep 2022
Convert julia objects to LaTeX equations, arrays or other environments.
Contributions:13 releases, 26 reviews, 589 commits in 4 years 11 months
equationsequationjulia-libraryarrayslatex
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