Paul Dobson
Honorary Fellow at Cofactory
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Dobson is an interdisciplinary biotech informatics leader with 11 years of experience applying computer science and modelling to drug discovery, cell function, and biomanufacturing. He has led academic research groups and held industry roles building data science pipelines and AI products for bioanalytical and bioprocessing applications, most recently as Head of Data at Beckman Coulter Life Sciences and Valitacell. Now running his own company and serving as Honorary Fellow at the University of Liverpool, he combines hands-on software engineering with practical biochemical engineering “widgets” used to accelerate Industrial Biotechnology. Comfortable moving between research, product and commercial teams, he also advises commercialisation and sales strategy for biopharma at Multus and leads innovation at Cofactory. His background—PhD in Bioinformatics from Manchester and early machine learning work on Raman spectra and kernel methods—gives him a rare blend of deep quantitative skills and operational experience in scaling lab-to-manufacturing solutions.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics at The University of ManchesterBachelor's degree Biochemistry, Bachelor's degree Biochemistry at UMISTProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dbkgroup/reaction-balancer
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:66 commits, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
porld/empathyApp
Jan 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:485 pushes, 1 branch, 51 comments in 7 months
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