Omer Weissbrod
VP Comp-bio & AI at Stealth startup
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolOmer Weissbrod is a computational biology and AI leader with 11 years of experience and 5+ years building and scaling industry AI teams, most recently as VP of Computational Biology & AI at Eleven Therapeutics and now leading comp-bio/AI at a stealth startup. He combines deep academic roots—a PhD in Biomathematics/Bioinformatics and postdocs at Harvard and the Weizmann Institute—with practical industry impact from IBM, Microsoft Research, and biotech. Omer has authored over 40 papers and produced widely used open-source tools, translating cutting-edge genomics research into production-ready ML systems. Known for assembling foundations from the ground up, he bridges research rigor and product delivery to accelerate translational programs. An interesting thread through his career is moving seamlessly between patents and peer-reviewed science, demonstrating both inventive applied work and academic influence.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyPh.D., Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Ph.D., Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at Technion and Tel Aviv University
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (18)
statistical-genetics10
functional-enrichment10
fine-mapping10
gwas10
case-control9
r-package4
resampling4
linear-models3
factorization3
r3
bioinformatics3
sampling3
topological-data-analysis2
sparse2
python1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
omerwe/PCGCs
Nov 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:58 commits, 75 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
omerwe/S-PCGC
Oct 2018 - Jul 2022
Heritability, genetic correlation and functional enrichment estimation for case-control studies
Contributions:120 commits, 1 PR, 106 pushes in 3 years 9 months
functional-enrichmentstatistical-geneticsgwas
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