Sam Thompson
Senior Data Scientist
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Thompson is a Senior Data Scientist based in London with nine years of experience applying computational biology, statistics and machine learning to biotechnology and automated laboratory workflows. He builds automation software for biological experiments and performs bioinformatics analyses, translating complex wet-lab requirements into robust, production-ready data pipelines. Sam’s academic foundation includes a joint PhD between Imperial College London and the National University of Singapore, where he developed large-scale simulations of tropical rainforest ecology—an unusual ecological modeling background that informs his systems-thinking approach to biological data. At organisations including the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult and Relation he has progressed from hands-on data scientist to senior technical lead, bridging research-grade models and industrial automation.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Biology at Imperial College LondonBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Natural Sciences - Biology and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Natural Sciences - Biology and Mathematics at Durham UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Biology at National University of Singapore
Github Skills (47)
conda-forge10
r-package10
conda10
forge10
knitr10
smithy9
gpy9
literate-programming9
rmarkdown9
sweave8
r8
computational-biology6
windows6
linux6
python6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
conda-forge/iterativewgcna-feedstock
Oct 2019 - Oct 2023
A conda-smithy repository for iterativewgcna.
Contributions:1 review, 18 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 years 1 month
condasmithy
thompsonsed/rcoalescence
Mar 2020 - Jun 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 135 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 4 months
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