Louis Soussand

Louis Soussand

Senior Data Scientist

Banque Nationale de Données Maladies Rares

Biography

I am a senior data scientist at the French registry on rare diseases working on building an information extraction algorithms from electronic health records to facilitate the work of medical doctors entering data into the registry. Previously, I used to work with Alex Cohen and Mike Fox in Boston on leveraging fMRI data to better understand how damage to specialized neural networks can trigger neurological diseases.

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Interests
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Biostatistics
  • Public Health
Education
  • Master of Science in Biostatistics, 2017

    University of Michigan

  • Bachelor of Art in Biological Sciences, 2014

    Connecticut College

Skills

R
Statistics
Python
Machine Learning
Docker
Linux

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Senior Data Scientist
Banque Nationale de Données Maladies Rares
Jun 2020 – Present Paris, France

Responsibilities include:

  • Building machine learning algorithms for automatic extraction of clinical information from rare diseases patients’ electronic health records.

  • Conducting epidemiological studies on rare disease patients

  • Developing tools to anonymize nominative patient data and building a widely accessible desindentified research rare disease registry usable by all researchers.

 
 
 
 
 
Biostatistician
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Sep 2017 – Sep 2019 Boston, MA

Responsibilities include:

  • Analyzed Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data using statistics, machine learning, and deep learning to understand the effects of brain lesions on brain function.

  • Planned and performed the statistical analysis for multiple published research projects.

  • Created a web platform to analyze MRI data enabling the medical doctors and researchers to use state of the art quantitative methods.

  • Maintained and developed the lab computational infrastructures using sys admin and programming tools.

 
 
 
 
 
Affiliated Staff
Boston Children Hospital
Sep 2017 – Sep 2019 Boston, MA

Responsibilities include:

  • Assisted research work on identifying the neurological basis of autism using MRIs data using statistics and machine learning.

  • Created data preprocessing pipelines to build normative datasets from publicly available data using the computational radiology lab infrastructures.

  • Built Dockers and singularity containers to deploy lab software solutions on BCH, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard Faculty of Art and Science high-performance clusters.

 
 
 
 
 
Research Student
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Jul 2013 – May 2015 Boston, MA

Responsibilities include:

  • Created an R data package on different cancers’ risks and incidences using data from published literature on patients with genetic risks.

  • Developed a web-based interface using R shiny and a search engine to navigate the database.

  • Contributed to an exhaustive literature review of lifetime risk of genetic inheritance to cancer.

Recent Publications

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Identifying a Gait Circuit from Focal Stroke Lesions and Deep Brain Stimulation Connectivity in Parkinson’s Disease (2910)
Lesion Network Mapping of Mania Symptoms Caused by Focal Brain Lesions
Mapping mania symptoms based on focal brain damage
Mapping migraine to a common brain network

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