Niklas Smedemark-margulies
Director Of Bioinformatics Software Engineering
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNiklas Smedemark-margulies is a director-level software and ML engineer specializing in bioinformatics with eight years of experience bridging computational biology, neuroscience, and immunology. He leads bioinformatics software engineering at Variantyx after senior ML work at Analog Devices and a PhD-focused research trajectory at Northeastern centered on transfer learning for brain-computer interfaces. His background blends production-grade engineering (Claritas Genomics, WuXi NextCODE) with academic rigor and industry research collaborations, including Meta Reality Labs and Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs. Comfortable moving projects from prototype to production, he brings deep domain knowledge in biological data, personalized model adaptation, and scalable ML systems. Notably, his training spans Harvard Medical School in immunology and a neuroscience undergraduate foundation, giving him rare interdisciplinary fluency across wet-lab science and software.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Neuroscience, Bachelor's degree, Neuroscience at Amherst CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Northeastern UniversityMaster's of Medical Sciences, Immunology, Master's of Medical Sciences, Immunology at Harvard Medical School
Chinese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (107)
python10
emoji10
terminal-color10
deep-learning10
gpu10
gpu-acceleration10
markdown10
signal-processing10
statistics10
acceleration10
linux10
formatter10
numpy10
progress-bar10
traceback10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nik-sm/bci-disc-models
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:26 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
nik-sm/gan-compression
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020
image compression using generative models
Contributions:59 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 2 months
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