Tommy Boucher
Principal Scientist at Caris Life Sciences
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolTommy Boucher is a Principal Scientist based in Cambridge, MA with 11 years applying machine learning to single-cell sequencing to accelerate discovery of cancer and autoimmune disease therapies. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UMass Amherst and has advanced ML-driven translational research across industry teams at Caris Life Sciences, Celsius Therapeutics, and Gritstone Oncology. Tommy’s work spans from foundational modeling in academic research to deploying analytic pipelines in biotech, bridging wet-lab needs and scalable computational solutions. He brings hands-on experience building models for complex biological signal extraction—work rooted in a long research apprenticeship that included contributing ML to IBM’s Watson QA system. Colleagues rely on him to translate noisy single-cell data into actionable insights that inform therapeutic strategies.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (8)
statistics10
data-science9
python9
data-analysis9
machine-learning9
scikit8
scikit-learn8
iterative3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
all-umass/ler
Jul 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes in 6 months
all-umass/ller
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 1 push in 19 days
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