Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • Ph.D., Graduate Group in Ecology 2015
    UC Davis Davis, CA
  • B.Sc., Center for Environmental Studies 2006
    Brown University Providence, RI

Professional Experience

  • Principal Scientist, Computational Research 2019-
    EcoHealth Alliance New York, NY
  • Senior Research Scientist 2017-2019
    EcoHealth Alliance New York, NY
  • Disease Ecologist 2015-2017
    EcoHealth Alliance New York, NY
  • Senior Analyst 2008-2009
    GreenOrder New York, NY
  • Analyst 2006-2008
    GreenOrder New York, NY

Selected Software Packages

  • citesdb: A high-performance database of shipment-level CITES trade data. (2019)    
  • fasterize: High performance raster conversion for modern spatial data. (2018)    
  • rchie: An R parser for ArchieML. (2018)        
  • redoc: Reversible reproducible documents with R Markdown and Microsoft Word. (2019)      

Courses and Workshops

  • Simulating Epidemiological Models with R, EcoHealth Net Workshop, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virgina, Jun 4, 2019    
  • Generalized Additive Models in R: A Free Interactive Course, (online), May 30, 2019    
  • Fitting Non-Linear Models in R with the mgcv Package, Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 10, 2018    
  • Simulating Epidemiological Models with R, EcoHealth Net Workshop, Tufts University, Meford, Massachusettss, Jun 5, 2017  
  • Fitting Non-Linear Models in R with the mgcv Package, Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 10, 2017  

Presentations

  • R, Coronavirus, and Pandemic Prevention, New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup, Apr 20, 2020        
  • Building Software and Communities With Peer Review: rOpenSci, pyOpenSci, and Beyond, PyData NYC, Nov 5, 2019      
  • One Health Surveillance Data: Sharing, Standards, and Stories, Bat One Health Research Network Meeting, Phuket, Thailand, Aug 28, 2019    
  • Epidemiological Modeling: From Basics to Artificial Intelligence, Department of Homeland Security Biosurveillance Presentation Series, Jun 19, 2019  
  • Reproducibility in an Office world: tools for crossing the abyss, New York R Conference, May 11, 2019  
  • Reproducibility in an Office world: a brief history of failures, R-Ladies NYC, Nov 6, 2018  
  • Generating better macroecological data from literature: a case study of antimicrobial resistance emergence, Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, Aug 10, 2018    
  • DockeR for the UseR, New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup, Jul 11, 2018        
  • The Modern R Data Package, New York R Conference, Apr 21, 2018  
  • Nonlinear models in R: the wonderful world of mgcv, New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup, Nov 21, 2017      
  • Better packages through peer review: lessons from rOpenSci, New York R Conference, Apr 22, 2017  
  • Joint circulation of viral diseases in a bat population, Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Ft. Lauderdale., Florida, Aug 9, 2016    
  • Optimal control of disease with individual-based models, Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, Aug 11, 2015    
  • Modeling forest disease using a macroparasite framework, Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Sacramento, California, Aug 13, 2014    

Publications

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  • Daniel Nüst, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Dom Bennett, Robrecht Cannoodt, Dav Clark, Gergely Daroczi, Mark Edmondson, Colin Fay, Ellis Hughes, Lars Kjeldgaard, Sean Lopp, Ben Marwick, Heather Nolis, Jacqueline Nolis, Hong Ooi, Karthik Ram, Noam Ross, Lori Shepherd, Péter Sólymos, Tyson Lee Swetnam, Nitesh Turaga, Charlotte Van Petegem, Jason Williams, Craig Willis and Nan Xiao (2020, preprint) The Rockerverse: Packages and Applications for Containerization with R. doi: