Experience

CarbonPlan

• United States
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder / Executive Director

  • Mar 2020 - Present

  San Francisco, California, United States



Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Director, Computational Biology

  • Oct 2016 - Oct 2019

  Redwood City As second employee I helped grow the science initiative from scratch. I influenced the allocation of philanthropic funding toward biomedical research, including grantmaking and data infrastructure for the Human Cell Atlas, supporting 300+ scientists to collaboratively generate, analyze, and share single-cell transcriptomic data. I also led early efforts to support open science and software, including funding for bioRxiv, and a novel grant program for open source software. I… Show more As second employee I helped grow the science initiative from scratch. I influenced the allocation of philanthropic funding toward biomedical research, including grantmaking and data infrastructure for the Human Cell Atlas, supporting 300+ scientists to collaboratively generate, analyze, and share single-cell transcriptomic data. I also led early efforts to support open science and software, including funding for bioRxiv, and a novel grant program for open source software. I directly supervised a 6+ computational biology team focused on building open source software tools for analyzing and visualizing biological data, and making biomedical science more open, collaborative, and inclusive. Show less



Howard Hughes Medical Institute

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Group Leader

  • Mar 2013 - Oct 2016

  I managed a team of 4+ scientists, engineers, and developers working on computational tools for understanding the mechanisms of large-scale neural coding in mouse cortex and whole-brain anatomy and circuitry in zebrafish. Along the way, we built a software platform for sharing computational analyses that now has ~500,000 monthly users (mybinder.org). We also started a community bringing 100+ of neuroscientists and data scientists together (codeneuro.org). During this time I… Show more I managed a team of 4+ scientists, engineers, and developers working on computational tools for understanding the mechanisms of large-scale neural coding in mouse cortex and whole-brain anatomy and circuitry in zebrafish. Along the way, we built a software platform for sharing computational analyses that now has ~500,000 monthly users (mybinder.org). We also started a community bringing 100+ of neuroscientists and data scientists together (codeneuro.org). During this time I published 20+ papers and co-edited a book (The Future of the Brain). Show less



New York University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD Student

  • Sep 2008 - Nov 2012

  My PhD research established links between statistical models of image processing (e.g. deep neural networks) and how the primate brain processes visual information. I published 15+ papers, and trained in cellular, molecular, and systems biology, statistics, machine learning, and signal processing.