# Simon Adar

> Simon Adar is the co-founder and CEO of Code Ocean, a New York-based platform that packages research code, data, and compute environments into reproducible 'compute capsules' so scientists can rerun each other's work without wrestling with dependencies. A hyperspectral imaging PhD from Tel Aviv University turned Cornell Tech Runway postdoc, he started the company after concluding that too much of his own research time went into trying, and failing, to rerun other people's code.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Code Ocean
- **Organizations:** Code Ocean, Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute (alum), Cornell Tech Runway Program (alum)
- **Nationality:** Israeli
- **Education:** PhD, Electrical Engineering (Hyperspectral Image Processing), Tel Aviv University, Runway Startup Postdoc, Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute / Cornell Tech
- **Known for:** Co-founded Code Ocean, which has raised roughly $55.7M across rounds through Series B., Runway Startup Postdoc awardee at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute (2014 cohort)., Partnered Code Ocean with major scientific publishers including Nature Portfolio and F1000 Research to embed executable code alongside published papers.

## Career timeline

- **pre-2014** — PhD at Tel Aviv University in hyperspectral image processing; collaborates with the German Space Agency (DLR) on the EO-MINERS FP7 project detecting environmental change from airborne and spaceborne sensors.
- **2014** — Joins the Runway Startup Postdoc Program at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech in New York.
- **2015** — Co-founds Code Ocean to attack the reproducibility crisis in computational research.
- **2019** — Code Ocean raises Series A funding to expand its compute-capsule platform for enterprise R&D.
- **2020** — Publishes and speaks widely on computational reproducibility; F1000 and University of Arkansas features.
- **2022** — Code Ocean closes a $16.5M Series B.
- **2024** — Announces partnership with Nature Portfolio; expands bioinformatics and multi-omics tooling.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Code Ocean, which has raised roughly $55.7M across rounds through Series B.
- Runway Startup Postdoc awardee at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute (2014 cohort).
- Partnered Code Ocean with major scientific publishers including Nature Portfolio and F1000 Research to embed executable code alongside published papers.
- Grew Code Ocean into a platform used by pharmaceutical companies and life-science research institutes for reproducible bioinformatics pipelines.

## Latest updates

- **2024-05** — Code Ocean and Nature Portfolio announce partnership to make executable code capsules available alongside Nature publications.
- **2024-07** — Adar posts hiring for Code Ocean's first Bioinformatics Evangelist, signalling deeper push into life sciences.
- **2022-05** — Code Ocean closes $16.5M Series B, bringing total funding above $55M.

## Links

- Website: https://codeocean.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-adar
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/SimonAdar
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/codeoceanhq

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