Dr. Arif Dönmez headshot

Expertise

Explainable AI · ML engineering · Bioinformatics & Biostatistics

Professional Affiliations

  • DNTOX, Co-founder Affiliate
  • IUF, Research Affiliate
  • RUB, Research Affiliate (alumnus)

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Contact Information

I am an AI research engineer with a background in mathematics, data science, and software development. I focus on building robust, efficient, and explainable AI systems that move from theory into practice.

My expertise combines research — developing methods that handle sparse or noisy data using symmetry and information geometry — with engineering, where I turn these ideas into production-ready pipelines and tools in Python, R, Julia, and C++ (PyTorch, Shiny, Django, Docker, CI/CD).

At DNTOX, I served as the architect and head of bioinformatics & biostatistics. I planned, designed, and implemented the data and analysis infrastructure supporting in-vitro experiments, which was critical for securing €1.4M in seed funding and growing the company’s valuation. My academic work has been presented at NeurIPS, and I hold a PhD in Mathematics from Ruhr-University Bochum with postdoctoral research experience in bioinformatics and biostatistics at the Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine (IUF).

Working Papers

A comparative study of biostatistical pipelines for benchmark concentration modeling of in vitro screening assaysNew Paper published in Computational Toxicology

in collaboration with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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