Paul Avillach
Associate Professor Of Biomedical Informatics
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Avillach is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School with a decade of experience translating heterogeneous clinical and genomic data into actionable insights. He specializes in integrating electronic health records, cohort studies, and high-resolution biological data to enable translational research and rare disease discovery, and has built APIs and platforms (e.g., BD2K PIC-SURE and i2b2/tranSMART demos) to make large patient registries queryable. Trained as an MD and PhD in biomedical informatics and epidemiology in France, he blends clinical perspective with computational rigor to bridge bedside observations and multi-scale data analysis. Based in Boston, he is known for pragmatic tool-building that emphasizes interoperability and reusability across research networks, having worked with datasets spanning tens of thousands of patients.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biomedical Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biomedical Informatics at Université de la Méditerranée (Aix-Marseille II)Master of Science (MSc), Biomedical Informatics, Master of Science (MSc), Biomedical Informatics at Université Paris DescartesCalmetteDoctor of Medicine (MD), Epidemiology, Doctor of Medicine (MD), Epidemiology at Université Victor Segalen (Bordeaux II)
Github Skills (6)
security8
docker-image6
csv2
machine-learning1
interoperability1
sql1
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hms-dbmi/BMI-703
Sep 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:6 pushes in 3 years 7 months
sailframes/core
Mar 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:5 PRs, 167 pushes, 26 branches in 3 months
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