Steven Ludtke
Professor at Baylor College of Medicine
Pearland, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Ludtke is a professor at Baylor College of Medicine and codirector of the National Center for Macromolecular Imaging and the Center for Computational and Integrative Bioinformatics Research, with over three decades of experience bridging physics, microscopy, and scientific software. He leads research in transmission electron cryomicroscopy, single-particle analysis and tomography, and develops widely used image-processing suites (EMAN and EMEN) that underpin much of modern structural biology. Trained as a physicist at Caltech and Rice (PhD in Biophysics), he combines deep domain expertise in scattering techniques and object-oriented databases with hands-on scientific programming. His work is notable for translating advanced imaging theory into practical, open research tools that enable large-scale biological discovery.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physics (Biophysics), PhD, Physics (Biophysics) at Rice UniversityCalifornia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (22)
reproducible-science10
image-processing10
image-filters10
hpc-applications10
hpc9
rtl-sdr8
nimble8
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receiver7
gnuradio6
cffi5
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formulas3
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kvr2007/eman2
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
A scientific image processing software suite with a focus on CryoEM and CryoET
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
cryoethpc-applicationscryoemc-plus-plusimage-processing
cryoem/eman2
Jan 2016 - Jan 2023
A scientific image processing software suite with a focus on CryoEM and CryoET
Contributions:2 reviews, 1241 commits, 49 PRs in 7 years 1 month
cryoethpc-applicationscryoemimage-processingscientific
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