Thomas Walter
Director Of Centre For Computational Biology (CBIO)
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Walter is a leading computational biologist and Full Professor at Mines Paris with 13+ years of experience translating computer vision, mathematical morphology and deep learning into biomedical impact. As Director of the Centre for Computational Biology (CBIO) and Deputy Director of Computational Oncology at Institut Curie, he bridges academia and clinical partners to deploy AI for precision medicine, from high‑content screening to computational pathology and spatial transcriptomics. His work spans method development and production-ready tools, including notable contributions to scikit-image (improving greycomatrix support for 16‑bit images), and a strong publication record in high‑impact venues. Trained as an electrical engineer with a PhD in image processing, he combines rigorous theory with hands‑on software engineering to solve large-scale bioimaging problems.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Image Processing, Mathematical Morphology, PhD, Image Processing, Mathematical Morphology at Mines Paris - PSLDiplom, Electrical Engineering (Elektrotechnik), Diplom, Electrical Engineering (Elektrotechnik) at Universität des Saarlandes
German, French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
computer-vision10
python10
image-processing10
numpy10
data-science9
image-analysis9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
scikit-image/scikit-image
May 2016 - Jan 2021
Image processing in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Scientist
Back-end Developer & Data ScientistContributions:111 commits, 7 PRs, 136 comments in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Thomas made significant contributions to the scikit-image library, focusing on the `greycomatrix` function. They updated the function to correctly handle and support 16-bit images, and added associated tests to ensure the code's robustness across various data types. They also refactored the code and documentation for improved clarity and maintainability of the co-occurrence matrix calculations.
image-processingpythoncomputer-visionimage
ThomasWalter/scikit-image
May 2016 - Mar 2020
Image Processing SciKit (Toolbox for SciPy)
Contributions:103 pushes, 20 branches in 3 years 10 months
pythontoolboximage-processingscipyscikit
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