Nils Hammerla
Chief Technology Officer at coding.bio
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNils Hammerla is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 13 years of experience building AI-driven products at the intersection of machine learning and healthcare. Based in London, he has led ML and NLP teams at babylon Health, driven applied research at Twitter focused on large-scale graphs and self-supervised learning, and now heads innovation in biotech and immunotherapy at coding.bio. He combines deep academic roots—a PhD in computer science focused on time-series and human behaviour—with hands-on engineering across production ML systems and user-facing dialogue systems. Known for translating research into product impact, he excels at scaling teams and research pipelines to deliver regulated, medically-relevant AI. An often-overlooked strength is his cross-domain fluency spanning ubiquitous computing, clinical text processing, and ad/recommendation research, enabling creative solutions in high-stakes environments.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Computer Science & Physics, Diplom Computer Science & Physics at TU Dortmund UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Newcastle UniversityUniversity College London
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
natural-language-processing9
sentence-similarity9
glove9
nlp9
multilingual9
cosine-similarity9
machine-translation9
sentence-embeddings9
machine-learning8
word-embeddings8
hardware7
firmware7
algorithm6
catalan6
dynamic-programming6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
babylonhealth/fastText_multilingual
Jun 2017 - Feb 2018
Multilingual word vectors in 78 languages
Contributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 8 pushes in 8 months
nlpdistributed-representationsword-embeddingsmachine-translationvectors
nhammerla/torchRBM
Apr 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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