Roy Granit
Senior Director, Head Of Computational Discovery
Modiin-Maccabim-Reut, Center District, Israel
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Top SchoolRoy Granit is a Senior Director leading Computational Discovery at Compugen, with a decade of experience translating multi-omics, bioinformatics and machine learning into actionable targets and biomarkers for cancer immunotherapy. He combines hands-on technical depth—from building proprietary computational platforms and cloud migrations to developing NLP-driven literature-mining tools—with cross-functional team leadership to shepherd discovery programs toward therapeutic impact. As a former CTO and co-founder of Academix and LabWorm, he has operationalized ML/NLP products, raised over ₪2M in funding, and repeatedly bridged academic research with industry needs. Roy holds a PhD in Cancer Bioinformatics focused on tumor heterogeneity and is notable for integrating product thinking into computational biology workflows to accelerate translation.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Data Science and Machine Learning, Applied Data Science and Machine Learning at Nebius Academy Israel (formerly Y-DATA)Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biomedical research Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biomedical research Bioinformatics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Github Skills (101)
transcriptomics10
single-cell-analysis10
pypi10
single-cell-genomics10
bioinformatics10
cran10
python9
spatial-transcriptomics9
tagsinput9
scanpy9
vscode9
data-visualization8
rna-seq8
bioconda8
statistics8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rgranit/rgranit
May 2021 - Dec 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
compugen-ltd/supercells
May 2021 - Sep 2022
Easily assess quality control data across multiple single cell datasets
Contributions:3 releases, 18 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 3 months
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