Vladimir Kiselev
Head Of Bioinformatics
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolVladimir Kiselev is a senior bioinformatics leader with 12+ years of experience building end-to-end single-cell discovery pipelines, cloud infrastructure and AI-driven drug discovery tools. As Head of Bioinformatics he combines hands-on coding (Python, R, bash), ML/statistics and full-stack cloud engineering (AWS, Terraform, Nextflow, SageMaker) to take projects from reads to actionable insights. He has led teams of up to 12, driven institute-wide cloud transitions at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, and founded a bioinformatics consultancy, demonstrating both operational and strategic leadership. An active open-source contributor and educator, he co-developed popular Bioconductor tools and contributes course materials for single-cell RNA-seq analysis, reflecting a strong commitment to reproducible science and training. His h-index of 21 (8k+ citations) underscores a sustained research impact alongside product delivery. Based in the Greater Cambridge area, he pairs deep academic pedigree (PhD in Biophysics) with pragmatic experience shipping scalable discovery platforms.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Biophysics, PhD, Biophysics at The University of EdinburghMS, Applied Mathematics and Physics, MS, Applied Mathematics and Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Russian, German, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
363reputation
42kreached
7answers
5questions
Github Skills (14)
rna-seq10
python-course10
seq10
bookdown10
sc10
r10
html8
plotly-dash6
heatmap6
shiny6
python6
jinja26
database6
flask6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sjt-github/Hemberg-scRNA-seq-Course
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:27 commits in 26 days
hemberg-lab/scRNA.seq.datasets
Jan 2017 - Oct 2017
Collection of public scRNA-Seq datasets used by our group
Contributions:188 commits, 22 PRs, 155 pushes in 9 months
datasetsbioinformaticsscrna-seqseq
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