Yannick Spill
Data Scientist
Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Top SchoolYannick Spill is a Data Scientist with 11 years of experience who helps organizations turn AI into measurable business outcomes, currently shaping AI governance, product management and knowledge models at the European Food Safety Authority. He combines deep academic training (PhD in Bioinformatics, ENS background) and postdoctoral research in computational biology with practical experience deploying Bayesian inference, topic modeling and learning algorithms in industry. Yannick has led the first Agile product at EFSA, advises on AI Act compliance, and designs ontology-driven knowledge organization for scientific processes—skills that bridge scientific rigor and regulatory-ready AI. His career spans founding a marketplace startup, industrial sensor/AI integration at Merck, and high-impact research in genomics and structural biology, reflecting an unusual mix of entrepreneurship, lab-grade statistical modeling and product delivery. Based in Parma, Italy, he thrives in multicultural, interdisciplinary teams and often applies advanced Bayesian and Monte Carlo methods to real-world data problems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Diplome de l'Ecole Normale Superieure, Chemistry and Physics, Diplome de l'Ecole Normale Superieure, Chemistry and Physics at Ecole normale supérieureMaster, Physical and theoretical chemistry, graduated first, with honors, Master, Physical and theoretical chemistry, graduated first, with honors at Sorbonne University (Paris 6)Ph.D., Bioinformatics, Ph.D., Bioinformatics at Université Paris Diderot
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
Github Skills (26)
r10
normalization10
rcpp10
fastq-files9
structural-biology9
3d-models9
stan9
python-bindings9
protein-structure8
r-package7
modeling7
python7
firmware5
cran4
devtools3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
3DGenomes/binless
Jun 2016 - Aug 2019
Resolution-independent normalization of Hi-C data
Contributions:8 releases, 2059 commits, 69 pushes in 3 years 2 months
hi-cnormalizationbinlessfused-lassogeneralized-additive-models
yannickspill/structure-vision
May 2025 - May 2025
Viewer for the structure extracted by Grobid on PDF documents
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
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