Nicholas Schafer
Co-Founder at Constantiam Biosciences
Katy, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Schafer is a PhD-trained biophysicist turned entrepreneur who co-founded Constantiam Biosciences after a decade of leading computational and data science efforts in both academia and industry. He built GPU-accelerated scientific simulation tools at Rice University that achieved over 100x speedups and has published in top journals including Nature Communications and PNAS. As Director of Data Science at Eventellect and a mentor/advisor to startups, he blends hands-on machine learning and data engineering with experimental insight into membrane protein folding. Based in Katy, Texas, he pairs rigorous academic training with practical product and team leadership, making him fluent at translating complex biophysical problems into scalable computational solutions. An understated strength is his track record of moving research code into high-performance, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics at Rice UniversityBS Mathematics Physics Molecular Biology Astronomy-Physics, BS Mathematics Physics Molecular Biology Astronomy-Physics at University of Wisconsin-MadisonData Science Certificate Data Science Immersive Program, Data Science Certificate Data Science Immersive Program at Flatiron School
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
folding10
bayesian8
reproducible-science7
reproducible-research7
variational-inference7
mcmc7
mongodb7
python7
bayesian-inference7
simulation6
probabilistic-programming6
probabilistic-models5
infrastructure5
machine-learning5
ipython5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
npschafer/dsc-website-ab-testing-lab-houston-ds-042219
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:234 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
npschafer/dsc-multiple-linear-regression-statsmodels-lab-houston-ds-042219
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:191 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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