Nils Gehlenborg
Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNils Gehlenborg is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School with 14 years of experience developing interactive computational tools that help scientists and clinicians interpret large, heterogeneous biomedical datasets. He leads the HIDIVE lab and directs multiple training programs (BIRT and the Master in Biomedical Informatics), blending research, education, and translational collaboration. His work sits at the intersection of data visualization, bioinformatics, HCI, and machine learning, with applied strengths in genomics, epigenomics, cancer biology, single-cell analysis, and EHR/mHealth interfaces. As co‑founder of datavisyn, he bridges academic methods and industry-ready visualization products, emphasizing reproducible integration and exploratory analysis. Colleagues value his interdisciplinary approach and focus on designing tools that leverage human cognition to turn complex data into actionable hypotheses.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Student, Computer Science, Visiting Student, Computer Science at University of WashingtonPhD, Bioinformatics, PhD, Bioinformatics at University of CambridgeMS (Diplom), Bioinformatics, MS (Diplom), Bioinformatics at University of Tübingen
English, French, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (140)
python10
extensible10
spatial10
genomics10
computational-biology10
eclipse10
data-repository10
javascript10
interactive10
maps10
data-visualization10
upsetr10
webgl10
venn-diagram10
genome10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
parklab/nozzle
Jan 2013 - Jul 2015
Nozzle is a report generation toolkit for data analysis pipelines implemented in R.
Contributions:52 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 6 months
data-analysisreproducible-researchhtml-reporthidivelab
4dn-dcic/4dn-policies
Nov 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 15 commits, 14 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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