Peter Peneder
Research Scientist, AIxBio Team at SecureBio
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolPeter Peneder is a machine learning researcher and bioinformatician with eight years of experience applying deep learning to precision medicine and biosecurity. As a Research Scientist on SecureBio’s AIxBio team, he builds safeguards and scientific-capability benchmarks to evaluate how frontier AI models predict biological experiment outcomes and generate hypotheses to prevent AI-enabled misuse. His PhD work produced multimodal models for single-cell transcriptomics and epigenetic liquid biopsy classifiers that improved pediatric cancer detection and monitoring (Nature Communications, 2021). He co-developed CellWhisperer, an interactive multimodal system for exploring single-cell data via natural language, reflecting his focus on usable AI tools for biologists. Based in Vienna, he blends rigorous academic training in bioinformatics with hands-on engineering to move models from research into evaluative frameworks for real-world risk mitigation. An underappreciated strength is his ability to translate complex genomic signals into interpretable ML features that inform both diagnostics and model-safety evaluations.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics at University of Vienna
English, German, Italian
Github Skills (26)
package-management10
conda10
bioinformatics10
bioconda9
python6
computational-biology5
rna-seq5
sequencing5
ai5
deep-learning5
machine-learning5
abc5
data-science5
artificial-intelligence5
pytorch5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
peneder/bioconda-recipes
Sep 2021 - May 2022
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Contributions:16 pushes, 6 branches in 8 months
biocondabioinformaticsrecipesconda
peneder/peneder
Feb 2025 - Nov 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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