Volker Bergen
Head Of Science (Deployed Science Engineering) at Helical
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolVolker Bergen is Head of Science specializing in deploying biofoundation models to accelerate drug discovery, combining eight years of computational biology and ML experience with hands-on product delivery. He leads teams at Helical to translate frontier machine learning into decision-ready insights for clients, after driving ML and computational biology efforts as Principal Scientist at Cellarity. His PhD work and open-source contributions to scverse/anndata and scvelo reflect deep expertise in single-cell data handling and efficient I/O for large sparse datasets—skills rarely found at the intersection of biology and production ML. With advanced degrees in computational biology and mathematics from Helmholtz/Harvard/TUM, he pairs rigorous quantitative training with practical ops, strategy, and team-building experience across startups and research institutions.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology at Helmholtz Center MunichM.Sc., Mathematics, M.Sc., Mathematics at Technical University of MunichDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology at Harvard Medical SchoolResearch Paper, Robust multivariate portfolio choice, Research Paper, Robust multivariate portfolio choice at University of TorontoExchange at NUS Business School, Exchange at NUS Business School at National University of SingaporeM.Sc. Hons., Finance and Information Management, M.Sc. Hons., Finance and Information Management at University of Augsburg
German, English, Russian, spanish, french, chinese
Github Skills (10)
bioinformatics10
pandas10
python10
data-science10
numpy10
machine-learning9
scikit8
scikit-learn8
data-structure7
data-structures7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
scverse/anndata
Aug 2018 - Dec 2020
Annotated data.
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Volker primarily focused on enhancing the `anndata` library's functionality related to data handling and I/O operations, especially concerning `.loom` files. They updated the `read_loom` and `write_loom` functions to improve data loading/writing, including handling layers and sparse data. Furthermore, the user contributed to enabling concatenation for AnnData layers and improved the library's memory management. Their contributions also included adding documentation and performing code cleanup.
datascversedata-sciencescanpymachine-learning
VolkerBergen/convertx
Jan 2022 - Jun 2023
word-to-html/json (for the EnduringWord commentary)
Contributions:2 PRs, 80 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 5 months
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