Santosh Tirunagari
Senior Machine Learning Scientist (NLP) at European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI
Telford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSantosh Tirunagari is a Senior Machine Learning Scientist (NLP) with a PhD and nine years of experience applying ML to biomedical and real-world problems, currently leading ML product development at EMBL-EBI in the UK. He has built scalable NLP pipelines that annotate 45M+ scientific articles, improving in-house dictionary-based annotations by 22% and exposing services via REST APIs for production use. His background spans academia and industry—from doctoral research advancing Dynamic Mode Decomposition to commercialising cloud ML services that generated recurring revenue—demonstrating a rare ability to translate novel algorithms into reliable products. He also advises and co-supervises PhD students as an Honorary Assistant Professor and consults on AI strategy, reflecting a strong mix of technical leadership, research depth, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University HyderabadMaster of Science in Technology (MSc.(Tech.)), Machine learning and Data Mining, First, Master of Science in Technology (MSc.(Tech.)), Machine learning and Data Mining, First at Aalto-yliopistoDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Machine learning, Signal Processing, and Computer Vision, Awarded PhD Degree in Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Machine learning, Signal Processing, and Computer Vision, Awarded PhD Degree in Computer Science at University of Surrey
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Github Skills (17)
genes9
proteins8
nlp6
while-loop6
shell6
tweepy6
natural-language-processing6
nltk6
bash6
python6
twitter6
targets5
machine-learning2
legaltech2
elixir1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ML4LitS/CAPITAL
Oct 2023 - Jun 2025
Contenxtual Annotations Pipeline with Tagging and Linking (CAPITAL)
Contributions:3 PRs, 55 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
Extract Proteins, Genes, and Diseases from text
Contributions:102 commits, 2 PRs, 82 pushes in 2 years 1 month
nlpproteinsgenesnatural-language-processingdiseases
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