David Heckerman
Distinguished Scientist And VP at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Heckerman is a distinguished scientist and technology leader with over three decades of experience in computational biology and machine learning, currently serving as Distinguished Scientist and VP at Amazon. He previously held long-tenured research leadership at Microsoft and briefly led data science at Human Longevity, bringing a rare combination of industry-scale systems expertise and deep biomedical training (MD, PhD in bioinformatics from Stanford). Known for translating complex statistical and biological problems into production-ready solutions, he operates at the intersection of research and productization. Based in Seattle, he maintains an academic curiosity—his personal homepage hosts decades of influential work—making him as comfortable publishing novel algorithms as deploying them at cloud scale.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
M.D., Ph.D., Bioinformatics, M.D., Ph.D., Bioinformatics at Stanford University
Github Skills (4)
mixed-models10
python7
bioinformatics5
machine-learning4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
MicrosoftGenomics/FaST-LMM
May 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:9 pushes, 14 comments in 4 years 8 months
pythonmachine-learninglinearlinear-mixed-modelsmixed-models
fastlmm/FaST-LMM
Nov 2014 - Oct 2019
Python version of Factored Spectrally Transformed Linear Mixed Models
Contributions:18 commits in 4 years 11 months
mixed-modelspython
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