Tom Luechtefeld
Chief Executive Officer at Insilica
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolTom Luechtefeld is the founder and CEO of Insilica, a Bethesda-based health informatics company focused on accelerating health research through tools like Sysrev for AI-augmented document review and BioBricks.ai to make public health data accessible via a single command. With a decade of industry experience and a PhD background in environmental health toxicology from Johns Hopkins, he blends domain expertise in toxicology and machine learning with practical engineering from a computer science program at Johns Hopkins. He has a track record of turning repetitive, error-prone research workflows into scalable, reproducible software that reduces time-to-insight for researchers. An underappreciated strength is his focus on making data plumbing trivial—so researchers can spend time on science rather than integration—reflecting his mission-driven approach to open, reusable informatics.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelors, Science for Physics, Bachelors, Science for Physics at Washington University in St. Louis
English
Stackoverflow
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35answers
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Github Skills (79)
r-package10
r9
unstructured-data9
developer-tools8
ai8
machine-learning8
intellij8
data-versioning8
data-science8
variational-autoencoder7
java7
gpu6
apache-spark6
ggplot6
python6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
biobricks-ai/toxtransformer
Aug 2023 - Mar 2026
BioSim model with Conditional Variational Autoencoder
Contributions:1 review, 103 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 7 months
variational-autoencoderml-model
sysrev/rsr
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
An R client for sysrev.com
Contributions:2 reviews, 239 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 5 months
r-packagereview-toolsrstatsr
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