Simon Arias
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolSimon Arias is a computational engineer and postdoctoral researcher with a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and nine years of experience applying HPC, deep learning, and software engineering to large-scale genomic problems. He specializes in transposable element bioinformatics, developing performant pipelines and ML models that accelerate detection in large plant genomes. Based in Barcelona, he balances research roles at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and universities while mentoring master's students in AI-driven bioinformatics. His background spans hands-on HPC service leadership and industrial AI engineering, giving him rare fluency across production systems, research code, and teaching. Notably, he has translated deep learning prototypes into scalable tools for genome analysis during international collaborations, blending methodological rigor with practical deployment.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Specialization in deep learning, Artificial intelligence, Specialization in deep learning, Artificial intelligence at deeplearning.iaUniversity of California, San DiegoPh.D. in Engineering, Bioinformatics, Ph.D. in Engineering, Bioinformatics at Universidad de Caldas
Spanish, English, Catalan
Github Skills (16)
insertion10
genomics9
bioinformatics8
finder8
polymorphism8
datasets7
nmf7
population-genetics7
computational-biology7
ltr6
genomics-visualization6
sequence6
bioconda5
blast5
sequence-alignment4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
GonzalezLab/MCHelper
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
MCHelper: An automatic tool to curate transposable element libraries
Contributions:2 releases, 79 commits, 173 pushes in 5 months
simonorozcoarias/Inpactor2
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:115 commits, 95 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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