Umut Eser
Head Of Generative AI
United States
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Top SchoolUmut Eser is a generative AI leader and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience translating deep academic expertise in genomics and physics into production AI for biotech and healthcare. Currently Head of Generative AI at Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine and a Venture Partner at Magnetic Ventures, he previously co-founded Weave where he served as CTO and Chief AI Officer, bridging research, product and board-level strategy. His background includes postdoctoral research at Harvard and Stanford, where he developed deep learning models for transcriptional regulation and 3D genome organization—work that informs his applied approach to biological ML. He has led ML teams at Cellarity and AI Therapeutics and advised multiple bio-startups, demonstrating a rare blend of hands-on model building and venture insight. Notably, he moves fluidly between academia and industry, turning complex sequencing and epigenomics problems into deployable generative models for drug discovery. Based in the United States, he pairs a PhD in Engineering Physics from Stanford with a practical track record of founding, advising, and scaling AI-driven biotech initiatives.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoctoral Fellow , Genetics, Computational Biology, Postdoctoral Fellow , Genetics, Computational Biology at Harvard Medical SchoolBS, Advanced Physics, BS, Advanced Physics at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics at Stanford University
Turkish, English, German
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Github Skills (39)
biology9
python9
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
drug-discovery8
discovery8
chemistry8
tensorflow8
graph8
quantum-chemistry8
data-science7
pytorch7
neural-network7
science7
fileio6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ueser/FIDDLE
Jul 2016 - Jul 2017
Flexible Integration of Data with Deep LEarning
Contributions:183 commits, 9 PRs, 68 pushes in 11 months
deep-learningmachine-learningflexible
ueser/Toolbox
Sep 2016 - Sep 2019
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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