Raphael Sonabend-friend
Associate Director
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRaphael Sonabend-friend is an Associate Director and machine learning expert with a PhD in statistics and over a decade of experience spanning data analysis, consulting, and open-source leadership. He has influenced high-stakes public health decisions through contributions to UK COVID-19 modelling and led multi-million-pound data science portfolios at Wellcome, taking projects from ideation to deployment. As founder of OSPO Now and previous founder of Codort, he blends technical product-building with open-source program strategy, authoring and editing specialist ML texts such as Applied Machine Learning Using mlr3 in R. At NICE he now shapes practical frameworks for evaluating AI in health technology and real-world evidence, combining hands-on code testing with policy and governance design. His background bridges academia and industry—publishing, building reproducible tooling in R/Julia, and advising genomics and health organisations—making him adept at translating complex models into usable, compliant systems. An unexpected thread: he pairs deep survival-analysis research with community-focused open-source stewardship, so his work often moves both science and practice forward.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at University College SchoolOther; HMX Pro online certificate program - Genetics - Essentials, Other; HMX Pro online certificate program - Genetics - Essentials at Harvard Medical SchoolUniversity College London
English
Stackoverflow
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10kreached
40answers
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Github Skills (130)
r610
cox-regression10
regression10
density-estimation10
bookdown10
broom10
r10
statistics10
sampling10
linear-models10
mixed-models10
probability10
r-package10
classification10
distributions10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
xoopR/distr6
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
R6 object-oriented interface for probability distributions.
Contributions:21 releases, 12 reviews, 161 commits in 1 year 8 months
distributionsstatisticsprobability-distributionsinterface-orientedprobability
Codort/website
Jul 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:17 PRs, 119 pushes, 8 branches in 4 months
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