Team

Henrik Bengtsson, PhD

Co-director

Henrik Bengtsson, has a MSc in Computer Science and a PhD in Mathematical Statistics. He is an associate professor at the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and affiliated with the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. He has helped to build up and maintain high-performance compute environments such as the Wynton HPC cluster and the C4 cluster, and cares greatly for the user experience on these environments.

Henrik has decades of experience in writing and maintaining scientific software and values sustainable, reproducible research. He is one of forty members of the R Foundation - a non-profit organization that supports the R Project, its continued development of the R language, and the R community around it. Through this work, he is also the director of the R Consortium Infrastructure Software Committee (ISC), which supports research & development activities related to R through a grant program with financial support from leading industry investors. He is the author of the futureverse and many more scientific software tools.

Stathis Gennatas, MBBS PhD

Co-director

Stathis Gennatas, MBBS AICSM PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Bioinformatics, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics and the Division of Clinical Informatics & Digital Transformation, Department of Medicine at UCSF, as well as the UCSF-UC Berkeley Computational Precision Health Program. His work includes the development of machine learning methods and software for biomedical data analysis, applied data science in basic research, clinical medicine, and public health. His overarching goal is to help make precision medicine a reality in a safe, fair, and efficient way. He is an affiliate of the Center for Targeted Machine Learning and Causal Inference, the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, the Institute for Global Health Sciences, and the Center for Intelligent Imaging. He holds a medical degree from Imperial College London and a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of rtemis.