Martin Jambon

Current

Sr. Software Engineer at MyLife.com

Past

Bioinformatics Scientist at Burnham Institute for Medical Research
R&D scientist at MEDIT
PhD student at Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines (IBCP)

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Education

Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon
Lycée Saint Louis
Lycée Pothier

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Connections

77 connections

Industry

Internet

Martin Jambon’s Summary

Graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, I have been enjoying full-time OCaml software development with international success since 2000.

Martin Jambon’s Specialties:

Search systems, search engines, software engineering, Objective Caml, OCaml, programming, research, science, data modelling, meta-programming, Camlp4, computer science, life sciences, proteins, bioinformatics, music information retrieval

Martin Jambon’s Experience

Sr. Software Engineer

MyLife.com

(Internet industry)

May 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

Data crawling, indexing and searching at MyLife.com (Wink.com), a California-based company.

Wink.com was ranked #3 website of 2007 by TIME. Merged with Reunion.com in 2008, giving birth to MyLife.com.
Bioinformatics Scientist

Burnham Institute for Medical Research

(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Biotechnology industry)

September 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 8 months)

Developed an estimator of the quality of any protein 3D structure or model. Discriminates NMR from X-ray structures with 90% success.
Location: La Jolla, California.
R&D scientist

MEDIT

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Biotechnology industry)

August 2003 — December 2003 (5 months)

I was in charge of transferring the software I developed during my PhD in an academic lab to this startup. This was just before my trip to China from February to August 2004. Location: Palaiseau, France.
PhD student

Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines (IBCP)

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Biotechnology industry)

September 2000 — June 2003 (2 years 10 months)

Developed a new bioinformatic system for matching and comparing similar 3D sites in protein structures. Details at http://martin.jambon.free.fr/phd.html

Martin Jambon’s Education

Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon

PhD , Bioinformatics , 1997 — 2003
Lycée Saint Louis

Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics 1995 — 1997
Lycée Pothier

Bac S , 1992 — 1995

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Additional Information

Martin Jambon’s Interests:

programming, sex, money

Martin Jambon’s Groups:

OCaml Community, ENS Lyon Alumni

Via Normale
Functional Programming
Ecole Normale Supérieure Alumni
FOSS Professionals
Communauté Française des Docteurs
AMBI (Association of BioInformatics Master - University Paris 7 - France, previously named AGM2)
OCaml Developers