Pol Escuder
Co-Founder & CTO at Heureka Labs
United States
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Top SchoolPol Escuder is a computational biologist and AI-focused software leader with eight years of experience translating multi-omics research into production-ready tools and predictive models. As Co-Founder & CTO of Heureka Labs and a former postdoc at Duke, he blends deep learning, clustering, and software engineering to tackle complex biological networks and cancer multi-omics integration. He completed a PhD in Bioinformatics at the University of Barcelona, where he developed FOBI—the first nutritional metabolomics ontology—multiple web apps and two Bioconductor packages published in high-impact journals. Pol’s work sits at the intersection of research and product: he moves experimental insights into reusable software, building pipelines and ontologies that make metabolomics and omics integration more reproducible and interoperable.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedicine (Specialization in Bioinformatics), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedicine (Specialization in Bioinformatics) at Universitat de Barcelona
Catalan, Spanish, English
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Github Skills (38)
foundry10
open-science10
ontologies10
r-package10
user-friendly10
ontology10
semantic-web10
metadata10
exploratory-data-analysis10
dimension-reduction10
geneontology10
bioconductor10
pipeline10
bioinformatics10
rdf10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pcastellanoescuder/POMA
Aug 2019 - Aug 2022
:package: Omics Data Analysis Tools
Contributions:2 releases, 201 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years
r-packagepre-processingdata-analysispipelinemass-spectrometry-data
pcastellanoescuder/FoodBiomarkerOntology
Oct 2018 - Jul 2021
:rocket: Food-Biomarker Ontology defines the relationships between foods and their associated metabolites (biomarkers) through a formal ontology
Contributions:2 releases, 72 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 9 months
biomarkersowlbiomarkerfoodfoods
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